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Researchers, Based On DNA Analysis, May Have Found The World’s Known Earliest Person, A 5000-Year Old Hunter Gatherer, In His Twenties And Buried In Latvia, Who Was Infected With An Ancient Strain Of The Black Death Plague, Caused By The Bacterium, Yersinia Pestis. The Plague Wiped Out About Half Of Europe’s Population In The 1300s.
Humanity has been ravaged by the plague — one of the deadliest bacterial infections in history — for thousands of years. Now, scientists have found an ancient strain of the bacteria in the world’s oldest known plague victim.