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the-bug-geek.bsky.social
#pneumonicplague #bacterialinfection #wmd #russia #yersiniapestis #airbornerespiratorydisease #plague
October 5, 2026 at 4:32 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
Since plague historians have the attention of vulcanologists & climate historians/scientists for a hot minute, let me throw out some notes on a #YersiniaPestis study that came out several months ago, but whose historical implications weren't immediately obvious. W/ this graph in mind, here's mini-🧵.
monicamedhist.bsky.social Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Dec 4
The omission is esp. odd b/c the potential volcano-plague connection has been sitting there in plain view for 5 years. Not the 1345 volcano, which is the new & valuable element of today's study. But an earlier & waaaay bigger one: Samalas in 1257. Here's fig S2 from today's study, which I've marked.
Bauch & Büntgen 2025, fig. S2. A graph showing "annually resolved and absolutely dated summer temperature." On the right side, a vertical blue bar marks the temperature dip after 1345. On the left side, a red arrow marks an even deeper dip after 1257. 1258 witnessed well-documented epidemic activity in the Middle East.
December 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
tinavstammy.bsky.social
Guess they might wanna speed this up a tad

#Plague #BubonicPlague #Vaccine #PlagueVaccine #YersiniaPestis
New Plague Vaccine Offers Powerful Protection across Deadly Strains | Passport Health
A new mRNA vaccine offers fast, flexible protection against plague pathogens. With further testing, it could help prevent future outbreaks and global health threats.
www.passporthealthusa.com
October 4, 2026 at 8:19 PM
meertext.bsky.social
Anders als in Europa gibt es in den #USA noch die #Pest, #YersiniaPestis.
Es kommt immer mal wieder zu Ansteckungen, gerade im ländlichen Bereich. Jetzt ist ein Krankheitsfall in #Kalifornien nachgewiesen.

Ungut, bei abnehmender ärtzlichen Versorgung u immer weniger GesundheitsMonitoring.
emha.bsky.social Emma @emha.bsky.social · Aug 21
'Die Krankheit sei bei adäquater und rechtzeitiger Antibiotikatherapie heilbar.'
Aber bald nicht mehr in den USA mit den ganzen Leugnern.
Irgendwann schickt Trump dann wieder ICE und die Nationalgarde, um Erkrankte zu kasernieren.🤪
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
Kalifornien: Pestinfektion nachgewiesen
Der Pesterreger ist in vielen Teilen Kaliforniens präsent. Flöhe können das Bakterium bei Bissen übertragen. So soll es nun in einem Fall am South Lake Tahoe geschehen sein.
www.spiegel.de
August 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
maxplanck.de
So intriguing! Researchers have isolated the genetic material of a prehistoric #plague pathogen from a 4,000-year-old sheep tooth, marking the first detection outside human remains & reshaping our view of early disease spread. www.mpg.de/25157082/080... @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social #yersiniapestis
Pathogen discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth
In the late Neolithic and Bronze Ages, sheep were apparently involved in the spread of an early form of the plague.
www.mpg.de
August 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
ecdc.europa.eu
Following the reported death of a laboratory worker in Irkutsk, Russia, from pneumonia that is suspected to be pneumonic plague, ECDC is closely monitoring the situation.

Read our news item on this event here: bit.ly/3Ufvnf7

#Plague #YersiniaPestis #Pneumonia #PublicHealth #ECDC
ECDC closely monitoring situation following case of pneumonia of unknown origin in Russia
Following the reported death of a laboratory worker in Irkutsk, Russia, from pneumonia that is suspected to be pneumonic plague, ECDC is closely monitoring the situation.
bit.ly
October 6, 2026 at 3:49 PM
germanvoice.bsky.social
Gehen wir davon aus, es war ein Arbeitsunfall, wie er in Klasse-3-Laboren vorkommen kann.

Ich hoffe, man bekommt #YersiniaPestis unter Kontrolle, denn diesen Keim wäre #Europa erledigt, solange #Antibiotika gegen #Pest in #Indien + #China hergestellt werden.
Wir erinnern uns an die FFP2-Masken?!
October 5, 2026 at 9:54 AM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
More plague news today. This piece has just been issued in pre-print, meaning it has not yet undergone peer review. For those who might want to watch the process by which scientific work develops in peer review, this might be worth tracking: doi.org/10.20944/pre... #histmed #aDNA #YersiniaPestis
The access page to Vianello et al. "Venice’s Hidden Time Capsule: Lazzaretto Vecchio as a 300-Year Molecular Archive of Epidemic Pathogens," Posted Date: 3 December 2025 doi: 10.20944/preprints202512.0373.v1 .
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
sebbontempsgallo.bsky.social
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October 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
Oooh, new Late Neolithic plague piece out today! This was already issued in a pre-print back in 2024, but I want to go thru the final version in detail before posting comments. Here's the link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Plague #YersiniaPestis #aDNA #EpiSky 🧪
Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago - Nature
Analyses of ancient DNA from hunter-gatherers near Lake Baikal in southeast Siberia around 5,500 years ago indicate that highly virulent Yersinia pestis emerged earlier than previously estimated, far&...
www.nature.com
June 17, 2026 at 7:17 PM
bbonucci.bsky.social
These days I am attending #AABA2026 in Denver! Super excited to give a talk this afternoon on our recent work! Come to Plaza A at 3.45 PM if you are interested 🧬🦠🎙️
#aDNA #yersiniapestis
March 19, 2026 at 3:45 PM
the-bug-geek.bsky.social
Accident at a Russian biolab results in lab tech dying of the pneumonic plague and subsequent quarantines and coverups. #pneumonicplague #plague #publichealth #vectorbornedisease #respiratoryinfection #bacterialpathogen #wmd #russia #yersiniapestis #irkutsk
October 4, 2026 at 12:50 AM
wournos.bsky.social
Yersinia Pestis has broken out in Russia. Will there be a future A Plague Tale in Siberia then?

Probably better that whatever twisted story they are trying to sell with Sophia as the lead.

#games #plaguetale #yersiniapestis
October 6, 2026 at 6:57 AM
ocasapiens.bsky.social
#zoonoses
#Yersiniapestis

Also relevant particularly if you live in the "rural West":
"Human plague cases, fatal and non fatal, in the United States 2000-2023"
www.cdc.gov/plague/maps-...
and
"Fatal laboratory-acquired Infection" in Chicago, IL., 2009
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...
October 4, 2026 at 6:43 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
The questions we tackle instead deal w/ the historical record & how it fits w/ what we know from modern biology about the ecology of plague (#YersiniaPestis).
In the 1st section of the paper, we examine why both medical & Mongol historiography have not been well-positioned to explain this pandemic.
February 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
freegardener.bsky.social
A lab worker in Siberia died of pneumonic plague after a test tube accident. ~200 contacts monitored, hospitals quarantined. The deadliest #Plague #PublicHealth #Siberia #YersiniaPestis

https://freegardner.com/sci_scout/siberia-lab-infection-and-pneumonic-plague-response.html
Siberia Lab Infection and Pneumonic Plague Response
Siberia Lab Infection and Pneumonic Plague Response
freegardner.com
October 6, 2026 at 1:16 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
For those w/ German here's a trailer re: the excavations of the Cathedral Plaza of Sankt Pölten, Austria, a site used for burials from the 11th to the 18thC. Amidst 1000s of individual burials, there are 2-3 layers of mass burials: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1gn.... #YersiniaPestis has been confirmed.
NEKROPOLIS (Trailer) - Premiere am 9.Juni 2024
YouTube video by Ostfilm GmbH Filmproduktion
www.youtube.com
March 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
ijustwant2bfree.bsky.social
"She was hospitalized Tuesday with symptoms of severe pneumonia in Shelekhov, a town near the regional capital of Irkutsk. She was placed on a ventilator and died Thursday, according to the reports."

#plague #pneumonicplague #yersiniapestis #publichealth
October 3, 2026 at 1:59 AM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
When it rains, it pours. New major study out today from the leading Chines lab working on plague (#YersiniaPestis) evolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Study based on 242 modern Y. pestis genomes, 178 of which are newly sequenced for this project. Thoughts on historical implications later.
Insights into Yersinia pestis evolution through rearrangement analysis of 242 complete genomes - Nature Genetics
Analysis of synteny blocks and genomic rearrangement patterns of 178 newly sequenced and 64 publicly available complete genomes of Yersinia pestis highlights the impact of key variations on genes invo...
www.nature.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
First of all, what is this study trying to do? It's coming out of the lab of Yang & Cui, who have been contributing enormously important work on the genetics of #YersiniaPestis for years. It builds on that background by analyzing a total of 3318 Y. pestis genomes, 2336 of them newly sequenced. 3/n
January 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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January 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
clusterroots.bsky.social
A new study led by #ClusterROOTS members Ben Krause-Kyora and Almut Nebel shows that the #Neolithic #plague bacterium did not cause mass mortality. It also shows possible infection paths of #Yersiniapestis 5000 years ago. The study has been published in #communicationsbiology.
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Neolithic plague bacterium did not cause mass mortality
Study by the Collaborative Research Centre 1266 ‘Scales of Transformation‘ shows possible infection paths of Yersinia pestis 5000 years ago.
www.uni-kiel.de
September 6, 2024 at 1:32 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
Wondering what a "pandemic prodrome" is? My colleague, @fancynahyan.bsky.social & I, summed up 7 years of our research on #YersiniaPestis phylogenetics, the history of the Mongol Empire, & deep dives into Islamicate world history here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #histmed #aDNA #GlobalHealth
Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al. | Medical History | Cambridge Core
Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al. - Volume 68 Issue 4
www.cambridge.org
October 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM