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Second Plague Pandemic

The long series of plague epidemics in Europe, North Africa and western Asia that began with the Black Death and recurred into the eighteenth century.

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A Tartu-led study dates 75 plague genomes by their place on the family tree

Radiocarbon can leave a medieval burial floating inside a century. A University of Tartu team used each plague genome's position on the evolutionary tree to tighten that window, and says many samples now line up with recorded outbreaks.

Publishers:sciencedaily.com

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Evidence42
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