This 5,000-year-old man had the earliest known strain of plague

ScienceDaily
Jun 29, 2021, 4:13 pm208 pts
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. A genetic analysis reveals that this ancient strain was likely less…

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