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A domesticated sheep who lived approximately 4,000 years ago in Arkaim, in the Ural Mountains of the South, near the border with Kazakhstan, opened a new route to explain how the plague circulated through Eurasia during the Bronze Age. Researchers detected genetic material from Yersinia pestis in an animal bone. The finding, reported in Cell magazine, provided an unprecedented clue about the presence of the pathogen thousands of years before the…
How a 4,000-year-old sheep solved a long-standing plague mystery
The Black Death is one of the most infamous pandemics in human history, killing roughly a third of Europe’s population during the Middle Ages. That outbreak was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread mainly through fleas that lived on rats. But thousands of years earlier, during the Bronze Age, a different form of […] The post How a 4,000-year-old sheep solved a long-standing plague mystery appeared first on Knowridge Science Report.
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