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The Black Death was definitely bubonic plague, confirmed by genetic analysis in 2010. That article is from 2001. This article is about genetics localizing the
by ianburrell 6y ago
The Black Death was definitely bubonic plague, confirmed by genetic analysis in 2010. That article is from 2001.
This article is about genetics localizing the source of plague to the Tian Shin mountains and maybe to marmots.
- gregwebs 6y agoThere are also more recent papers such as this 2018 paper concluding that rodent fleas could not have caused the second pandemic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5819418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5819418/