Bioscience:Secrets of the Sequence（5）
Now the science of genomics has been drafted to serve in the war on killer diseases， including the bacteria that causes bubonic plague. The technical name is yersinia pestis. But in the 14th century it was called， more graphically， the black death， wiping out a third of the population of Europe — 25 million people. In a handful of outbreaks since the sixth century， the plague has killed an estimated 200 million people worldwide. How does this killer do its deadly work?
- Added：2006
- Country：America
- Duration：30
- Time of update：2011/8/26 15:02:04