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October 26, 2015

Plague in humans 'twice as old' but didn't begin as flea-borne, ancient DNA reveals
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Oct 26, 2015
New research using ancient DNA has revealed that plague has been endemic in human populations for more than twice as long as previously thought, and that the ancestral plague would have been predominantly spread by human-to-human contact - until genetic mutations allowed Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis), the bacteria that causes plague, to survive in the gut of fleas. These mutations, which may have occurred near the turn of the 1st millennium BC, gave rise to the bubonic form of plague that spreads at ... read more

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