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The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague ...

New research by geneticists hints at the deadly work of Yersinia pestis 5,000 years ago. By Franz Lidz At the end of the Stone Age, some 5,300 years ago, the populations of Scandinavia and northwest ...

Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death. While extremely rare, ...