Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...

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Among the scars left by this mass mortality event are those in the genomes of modern humans, including the prevalence of gene variants that may have protected against the causative bacterium Yersinia ...

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pestis. He probably contracted the Hib infection first, Guellil and colleagues say. While respiratory infections rarely leave marks, the boy’s kneecaps had fused to the thighbones above them.