Ancient, Unknown Strain of Plague Found in 5,000-Year-Old Tomb in Sweden
Researchers found the plague sample on the remains of a 20-year-old woman, shown above. Credit: Karl-Göran Sjögren / University of Gothenburg. In a nearly 5,000-year-old tomb in Sweden, researchers have discovered the oldest-known strain of the notorious bacterium Yersinia pestis — the microbe responsible for humanity’s perhaps most-feared contagion: the plague. The finding suggests that the germ …
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