How 'Black Death' pathogens survived in Europe
For the study, scientists reconstructed complete pathogen genomes from victims of the Great Plague of Marseille (1720-1722).
Jan 24, 2016, 15:59 PM IST
Black Death plagued humans since Bronze Age
It turns out the plague was plaguing humans far earlier than previously believed.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.
Oct 23, 2015, 09:19 AM IST
