DNA from long ago shows where the Black Death started
Villages near Lake Issyk-Kul, in what is now northern Kyrgyzstan, were experiencing an epidemic of deaths between 1338 and 1339. When people died during this time period, many of their tombstones blamed a generic “pestilence.” Yersinia pestis, which caused the Black Death in Europe only a few years later, was found in old bacterial DNA…
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