Plague Bacterium
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Ancient Plague Outbreaks Among Siberian Hunter Gatherers Dated To 5500 Years Ago
The plague was causing deadly outbreaks among communities of hunter-gatherers in Siberia around 5,500 years ago, according to a study on Wednesday that sheds light on how humans...
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Couple Ate Squirrel Believed To Have Health Benefits. They Died Of Plague
For days, the dusty roads of a small town in Mongolia's westernmost province were largely deserted. "After the quarantine was announced, not many people - even locals - were in the streets for fear of catching the disease," Sebastian Pique, an American Peace Corps volunteer who has lived in the remote mountainous region for two years, told the Agen...
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Study Reveals How Plague Bacteria Sparked Global Pandemics
A genome analysis of the plague bacterium revealed how a single entry of the bacterium into Europe was responsible for the Black Plague of the mid-14th century before becoming the source for modern day epidemics around the globe.
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Ancient Plague Outbreaks Among Siberian Hunter Gatherers Dated To 5500 Years Ago
The plague was causing deadly outbreaks among communities of hunter-gatherers in Siberia around 5,500 years ago, according to a study on Wednesday that sheds light on how humans...
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Couple Ate Squirrel Believed To Have Health Benefits. They Died Of Plague
For days, the dusty roads of a small town in Mongolia's westernmost province were largely deserted. "After the quarantine was announced, not many people - even locals - were in the streets for fear of catching the disease," Sebastian Pique, an American Peace Corps volunteer who has lived in the remote mountainous region for two years, told the Agen...
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Study Reveals How Plague Bacteria Sparked Global Pandemics
A genome analysis of the plague bacterium revealed how a single entry of the bacterium into Europe was responsible for the Black Plague of the mid-14th century before becoming the source for modern day epidemics around the globe.
