Yersinia pestis

discovered by:

• Alexandre Yersin

  Sources: La peste bubonique à Hong-Kong

Appears in10 items

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  Pandemics7 items
  • First plague pandemic541 CE
  • The Plague of Justinian541 CE
  • Deaths from “pestilence” in the Chüy Valley1338
  • The Black Death1346
  • Third plague pandemic1855
  • Yersin finds the plague bacillus in Hong KongJun 1894
  • Ancient DNA confirms the plague of JustinianMay 2013
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  The Black Death1 item
  • London’s emergency cemeteries · genome found2 Feb 1349 O.S.
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  The Byzantine Empire2 items
  • The Plague of Justinian · pathogen541 CE O.S.
  • The Black Death reaches Constantinople · pathogen1347 O.S.

Sources

1. ArticleA draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death
2. ArticleThe source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia