Black Death has been discovered in the remains of a 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer.Genetic analysis found the ancient strain was probably less deadly than the medieval one that caused a pandemic that killed up to half of Europe’s population in the 1300s.Senior author Ben Krause-Kyora, head of the aDNA Laboratory at the University of Kiel in Germany, said: “What’s most astonishing is that we can push back the appearance of Y.
pestis 2,000 years farther than previously published studies suggested.“It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria.”The plague-carrying hunter-gatherer was a 20 to 30-year-old man who has been named RV 2039.He was one of two people whose skeletons were excavated in the late 1800s in a region called.
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