5,500-year-old plague outbreak killed Siberian hunter-gatherers, ancient DNA reveals (opens in new tab)

When most people think of plague, they picture medieval Europe, crowded streets, and rats carrying infected fleas. New research suggests the disease was already killing people thousands of years before any of those conditions existed. A study published in Nature reports evidence of deadly plague outbreaks among hunter-gatherers living around Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia […]