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Plagued for millennia: The complex transmission and ecology of prehistoric Yersinia pestis

Yersinia pestis is the bacterium that causes plague, a zoonotic disease transmitted from rodents to humans via fleas. It is also renowned for being involved in three pandemics throughout human history. In recent years it has become evident that Y. pestis’ association with humans predates... click to read more

Aida Andrades Valtueña | Postdoctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Gunnar U. Neumann | PhD Student at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Alexander Herbig | Research Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

plague

ancient DNA

Stone Age

Yersinia pestis

human disease

Reading time 3 min

published on Jul 31, 2023