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The Plague that brought down mighty empires is thousands of years older than thought

• arclein

The bacteria that causes the Plague, Yersinia pestis, diverged from the less-pathogenic Y. pseudotuberculosis bacterium about 5,783 year ago. That divergence, and therefore the bacteria's possibility of infecting humans, is much earlier than scholars previously estimated.


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