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Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research
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World-leading science. Based at McMaster University.
IIDR researchers have discovered that a single gene in Yersinia pestis — the bacteria that causes bubonic #plague — was responsible for keeping pandemics like the Black Death burning for hundreds of years. Learn more about this evolutionary phenomenon in our all-new explainer video. #IDSky
May 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM