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    Finding ground zero for theBlack Death… after nearly 700 years

    Oct 05, 2022 2 minutes

     It triggered a wave of pandemics that caused havoc in the world across two millennia. The plague bacterium Yersinia pestis caused the Plague of Justinian in 541 AD, and continued until 750 or 767 AD, but then did not re-appear as a major epidemic until

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