Yersinia Research Unit (@yersiniaunit.bsky.social)

The plague bacillus became less virulent, prolonging the duration of two major pandemics Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, may have prolonged the duration of... https://www.pasteur.fr/en/press-area/press-documents/plague-bacillus-became-less-virulent-prolonging-duration-two-major-pandemics