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A plague mysteriously spread from Europe into Asia 4,000 years ago. Scientists now think they may know how

Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in ...

Dead Colorado cat tests positive for the plague — just weeks after Arizona resident dies of troubling disease

The announcement of the case comes as an Arizona resident died of the plague just last month, while officials warned that a ...

Ancient animal bones unlock clues about Bronze Age plague

For the first time, archeologists and anthropologists have identified this ancient plague in an animal: a 4,000-year-old ...

Livestock played a role in prehistoric plague infections, genomic study finds

Around 5,000 years ago, a mysterious form of plague spread throughout Eurasia, only to disappear 2,000 years later. Known ...

4 thousand-year-old sheep DNA reveals livestock’s role in spreading Bronze Age plague

Four thousand years ago, a sheep in the Eurasian Steppe carried a lethal bacterium that once swept across continents. The ...
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4,000-year-old sheep offers first evidence linking livestock to Bronze Age plague

A new study has decoded a mysterious plague that swept across Eurasia thousands of years ago. An ancient strain of plague ...

Bubonic plague treatment proven highly effective and safe in world's first trial

Researchers from the U.K. and Madagascar, in collaboration with Madagascar's health services and national plague program, ...

Stray dogs and wild hogs plague Salina cemetery, city seeks $50K for repairs

SALINA, OKLA. (KTUL) — The Ross Mayes Cemetery, a final resting place for generations of Salina families, is under siege. Wild hogs and a growing population of stray dogs have been damaging gravesites ...