The source of the Black Death plague is finally pinpointed by scientists, new study says
Historians have long debated its geographical origins. However, according toNature, the Black Death originated in northern Kyrgyzstan in central Asia in the late 1330s.
DNA sequencing found that three individuals carried Yersinia pestis, a bacterium linked to the outbreak of the plague that led to the Black Death, the study said. The scientists chose the cemeteries near Lake Issyk Kul because they had previously identified an unusually high spike in the number of burials between 1337 and 1339, according to the study.
were large, pustulant boils in the groin, neck, and armpits. Acute fever and vomiting blood followed. The skin sores become black. They would have died between two and seven days after infection.
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