Evolution of Plague

[BillT]

Here's a great story:

How plague evolved, from a soil bacteria to a human disease to using rats as a vector of transmission as determined by ancient DNA:
http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2015/10/bronze-age-bubonic-plague-wasn-t-spread-fleas?utm_campaign=email-news-weekly&et_rid=33537079&et_cid=61390

[LizStreithorst]

I just got around to reading it.  It was great, just the kind of science I like.  I like anything medical if it's disease related.  Thanks!  I'm big on microbiology, too. 

[BillT]

Thought you might like it.

[LizStreithorst]

Keep me in me in mind when you go hunting for sciencific stuff.  I think that my happiest moment with science was when I read about Mad Cow disease.  I new about it a good 6 months before my veterinarian, a cow man, read about it.  He actually had the gall to think that I was going quack on him.  But I got the last laugh when he told me stuff about the disease and I was able to replied,  "i know".