- The oldest strain of Yersinia pestis--the bacteria behind the plague that caused the Black Death, which may have killed as much as half of Europe's population in the 1300s--has been found in the remains of a 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/cp-t5m062421.php 3 comments science
- 5,000-year-old man had the earliest known strain of plague https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/cp-t5m062421.php 14 comments anthropology
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