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Top 5 deadliest pandemics and disease outbreaks in history
Throughout history, the deadliest disease outbreaks and pandemics have decimated societies, killing millions. From the Black ...
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Did This Bronze Age Sheep Trigger One of History’s Deadliest Diseases?
Scientists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old ancestor of the Black Death in the remains of a Bronze Age sheep, shedding light ...
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Ancestor of Black Death Has Been Discovered in Bronze-Age Sheep
"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...
Phys.org27d
Plague transmission may have begun a century before the Black Death, study shows
In a previous study they showed how multiple contemporary observers were suggesting the new presence of a plague-like disease in western Asia in the second half of the thirteenth century ...
New Scientist13d
Ancient ancestor of the plague discovered in Bronze Age sheep
The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread ...
Irish Central12d
Ireland’s bubonic plague scare in 1900
The disease likely surfaced in Glasgow when soldiers returning from the Boer War in Africa - where the plague persevered until the 20th century - brought it back with them. However, while Dublin ...