Stupor Among Scientists: After Reconstructing 26 Genomes, DNA Reveals that the Black Plague Did Not End in 1353, but Continued to Kill 350 More Years in Europe
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An international team led by the University of Tartu (Estonia) reconstructed 26 new genomes of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium causing the black plague. The remains analyzed come from 11 archaeological sites in Estonia, the Netherlands, western Russia, Switzerland and England. Of these new genomes, 11 have full coverage and 15 less coverage, ... Continue reading "Stupor among scientists: after rebuilding 26 genomes, DNA reveals that the black pla…
The plague epidemic that devastated Europe in the 14th century did not end after the first wave, as was often thought. A new study shows that the disease has returned to several regions of Europe for nearly 400 years, until the 18th century. Researchers have managed to reconstruct more precisely the spread [...]
A new study led by researchers from the University of Tartu shows that the history of plague in Europe was much more complex than the great wave of the Black Death between 1347 and 1353 often described in school textbooks. The plague bacterium Yersinia pestis did not disappear from Europe after that, but the disease broke out again and again in different regions for almost 400 years, until the 18th century.
The infamous Black Death was just the beginning. New outbreaks of plague stranded Europeans at home, on trade routes, and at war. How did they learn to restrain a disease that they knew nothing about the pathogen?
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