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Plague mysteriously spread from Europe to Asia thousands of years ago. Scientists now think they know how it was transmitted - CNN

Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in Eurasia for thousands of years, experts say.

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Plague mysteriously spread from Europe to Asia thousands of years ago. Scientists now think they know how it was transmitted - CNN
For thousands of years, a disease repeatedly struck ancient Eurasia, quickly spreading far and wide. The bite of infected fleas that lived on rats passed on the plague in its most infamous form the B… [+6229 chars]

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