Sentences with phrase «for bubonic»

A domestic cat in Crook County tested positive for bubonic plague in 2011.

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But Wittenberg went on its way, as yet largely undisturbed except by the bubonic plague which was raging just now; two hundred students left Wittenberg temporarily late in 1516 for their homes, or to stay elsewhere for a while till the plague should move on.

«Secondly it shows that this was, would be a viable route for the spread of those other infectious diseases like Bubonic plague and leprosy and anthrax that people had previously suggested might have been spread between East Asia and Europe along the Silk Road.

The bubonic types responsible for the medieval Black Death and recent outbreaks emerged about 3,000 years ago from a mutation that made Y. pestis flea - borne.

Scientists are sequencing a range of genomes, for example, to reconstruct the evolution of Yersinia pestis, the microbe that causes bubonic plague.

Many kinds of bacteria create so - called pili fibers, including the Escherichia coli responsible for urinary tract infections and the Yersinia pestis bacteria that cause bubonic plague.

Among them: 500 - plus Oriental rat fleas, notorious for their role in transmitting the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death.

The DNA of bubonic plague bacteria, blamed for Europe's great plague of 1348, has turned up in victims of a plague that shook the Roman world in AD 541

Molecular palaeopathologist Kirsten Bos found positive results for Yersinia pestis in the teeth of five out of 20 skeletons she examined, confirming this is the bacteria that caused the bubonic plague.

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And vinegar, in any form, has been used for countless purposes throughout human history, including the disinfection of wounds on the battlefield and the prevention of the bubonic plague; in fact, its medicinal uses date back to Biblical times.

These are the «bad» bacteria in your GI tract and are most responsible for diseases such as bacterial meningitis, cholera, bubonic plague and certain kinds of venereal diseases.

By the time school started, I had rough plans for a culminating project: a living museum in which my seventh graders would dramatically present their learning about the fourteenth century bubonic plague in Europe.

Here, for your edification, is a whistle - stop tour through some of the world's worst pandemics: The Bubonic Plague In the 14th century, it is estimated that the Bubonic Plague killed approximately 75 million people.

The name bubonic comes from the word bubo, which is a fancy word for enlarged lymph node.

Also known as bubonic or septicemic plague, this highly contagious bacterial disease caused by Yersinia pestis is the «Black Death» responsible for killing one - third to one - half of the world's population in Europe and Asia in the late 1340s.

In response to more deaths, tissue samples were sent to Angel Island for testing to determine if they harbored Yersinia pestis, the bacteria responsible for spreading the bubonic plague.

This ship of the desert is what connected China, the Arabian Peninsula and Europe for thousands of years — a route known as the Silk Road, transporting not only silk and perfume but technology, religion and the sneaky bubonic plague.

Death Inc. is a strategy game for PC, Mac, and Linux where you control the Grim Reaper and your goal is to infect everyone with the bubonic plague (with infected individuals becoming new minions to help you infect others).

They have not yet had the same impact as the Black Death — but as we saw in New Orleans in 2005, it does not take the bubonic plague to destroy social order and functional infrastructure in a financially complex and impoverished society... Once you understand the transition in this way, the need is not for a supercomputed Five Year Plan — but a project, the aim of which should be to expand those technologies, business models and behaviours that dissolve market forces, socialise knowledge, eradicate the need for work and push the economy towards abundance.

Bubonic plague breaks out and the town is cut off from the rest of the world for months on end as thousands succumb to horrible deaths.

# 88 — That rats can carry fleas transmitting bubonic plague applies only to those rats they tested for infected fleas, and does not apply to the rats they did not test.