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Ancient Plague Twist!

Plague was deadly to Siberian hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago, millennia before the Black Death and the rise of cities.

New discoveries using ancient DNA are changing what we know about the earliest history of diseases like the plague. It was a killer long before crowded cities emerged.

Sources

• sciencedaily.com

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