4,000-Year-Old Sheep Bone Shows Evidence of the Plague, a First Case Beyond Humans Learn about the first evidence of the Bronze Age plague in a non-human host, found in a sheep bone from Russia.

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Study Reveals Plague's Evolutionary Hack to Survive 3 Pandemics All the science news you can handle in a single feed

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Yersinia pestis actively inhibits the production of extracellular vesicles by human neutrophils Yersinia pestis is the etiologic agent of the plague. A hallmark of plague is subversion of the host immune response by disrupting host signaling pathways required for inflammation. This non-inflammat...

How does Yersinia pestis evade immune defenses?
The latest preprint from @lawrenzlab.bsky.social shows that Y. pestis actively inhibits the production of antimicrobial extracellular vesicles produced by neutrophils.

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