New Study Shows What Really Happened After The Black Death Wiped Out Millions
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New Study Shows What Really Happened After The Black Death Wiped Out Millions
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Black Plague is often presented as a single major epidemic that devastated Europe between 1347 and 1353.
History often holds the black plague as a unique wave that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1353. However, a recent research published in the journal PNAS upsets this simplified historical narrative. Scientists from the University of Tartu show that the plague has been recurrent and devastating until the 18th century. Thanks to a methodology ... Read more The article An unpublished study reveals the unknown persistence of the plague after the gre…
Centuries of after-effect: After the Black Death the plague did not disappear from Europe, but returned to the 18th century in genetically different lines. Old pathogen DNA and a new dating method now allow many pest genomes to be carefully combined with concrete historical eruptions. Wars and repeated introductions are also visible as important ways of spreading. Chur [...] The post What happened after the Black Death cost millions of lives? ap…
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