Today, in the final episode of the Past Pandemics series, we're talking about the Plague of Justinian, the first occurrence ...

The plague of Justinian, the Black Death, and the 500 years of plague outbreaks that followed the Black Death, were all caused by variants of the same bacterium.

Although the Plague of Justinian undoubtedly struck the final blow to the Negev grape industry, the story isn't quite that simple. As we've seen in 2020, political tensions, climate change, and ...

To plague aficionados, the Justinian Plague, which in the 6th century AD is thought to have killed 30 million to 50 million from Asia to Africa to Europe, is hardly a footnote.

The strain of Y. pestis associated with the first plague pandemic was previously recorded as first appearing during the Plague of Justinian, which began in 541. However, ...

The sixth-century C.E. Plague of Justinian was “a pestilence, by which the whole human race came near to being annihilated,” according to the Byzantine historian Procopius.

But the earliest known bubonic plague outbreak — the Plague of Justinian — took hold in the Mediterranean Basin and lasted from AD 541 to AD 544.

The Plague of Justinian in the mid-500s is the first recorded plague pandemic in human history. It is named for Justinian I, the Byzantine emperor at that time, ...

Apart from its spread through Europe between 1346 and 1353, the bubonic plague is believed to be the root cause of the Eastern Roman Empire’s Plague of Justinian in the 6th century CE, as well ...

The strain of Y. pestis associated with the first plague pandemic was previously recorded as first appearing during the Plague of Justinian, which began in 541. However, ...

By Amarachi Orie, CNN In the largest DNA analysis of its kind, scientists have found evidence to suggest that historic plague pandemics, such as the Black Death, were not caused by newly evolved ...