Study reveals plague decimated hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago

An international team of researchers found traces of primitive plague in Siberian hunter-gatherer populations.

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The discovery pushes back the disease's emergence by several millennia.

The Black Death, which killed millions, now has an older origin story.

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