Livestock played a role in prehistoric plague infections: Yersinia pestis genome has been discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth at Arkaim
Black Death offers window into how childhood malnutrition affects adult health, according to a new study published in Science Advances
4,000-year-old plague DNA found: the oldest cases to date in Britain; the paper is published in Nature Communications
Plague trackers: Researchers cover thousands of years in a quest to understand the elusive origins of the Black Death
Origins of the Black Death identified. Despite the pandemic’s immense demographic and societal impacts, its origins have long been elusive
