By IDSE News Staff
A new laboratory study suggests that human body lice are more efficient at transmitting Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, than previously thought, supporting the possibility that they may have contributed to past pandemics (PLOS Biology 2024;22[5]:e3002625 https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002625).
“We have found that human body lice are better at transmitting Yersinia pestis than once appreciated and achieve