Genetic analysis of the man's bones has revealed the world's oldest strain of the Yersinia pestis bacteria....
The rod-shaped bacteria are responsible for some of the deadliest outbreaks of the plague, a terrifying disease that strikes in one of three forms: bubonic, septicemic or pneumonic....
Yersinia pestis is responsible for the Black Death, which swept across Europe in the 1300s and wiped out as much as half of the continent's population. Archaeologists first unearthed the man's remains i
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