How to pronounce“yersinia”in English
5. The Mongols were probably responsible for the Black Death. By opening up trade they also opened up vectors for disease to travel, in the case of the Plague via fleas infected
with Yersinia pestis. And at least according to one story, the Mongols intentionally spread the plague by catapulting their plague-ridden cadavers over the walls of Caffa in the Crimea.
While this primitive act of biological warfare might have happened, it’s unlikely to be what actually spread the plague. More likely it was the fleas on the rats in the holds
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Definitions of “yersinia”
A Gram-negative bacterium, of the genus Yersinia, that is an etiological agent of several diseases in animals and humans, notably Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.