Bubonic plague may be deadlier than its benign cousin
because of two small tweaks to its genetic blueprint, new research suggests.
The bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, has killed
more than 200 million people, while its ancestor Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is usually harmless.
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