New insights into the evolution of the plague pathogen
Among others, skeletons found during an excavation at a cemetery in Sejet, Denmark, provided genetic samples for new plague study from Kiel University. Credit: Unit of Anthropology, SDU The origins of the plague go back to the Neolithic Age, with the oldest findings of the causative pathogen Yersinia pestis coming from human bones around 5,000
Jeanice Catt
July 27, 2023