Dominik Göldner, BGAEU, Berlin
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The 2039 RV skeleton found has evidence of the bacteria that caused the black plague in the 14th century, dating back 5,000 years.
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Nationalgeographic.co.id – Yersina pestis is bacteria black plague or Black Death which killed half of Europe’s population in the 1300s. The outbreak of this disease made medical experts confused at the time with technology that was still simple.
But actually, bacteria it infected humans about 5,000 years ago, according to a research report in Cell Reports, published Tuesday (29/06/2021). Researchers call that time Y. pestis not as contagious and deadly as in the Middle Ages.
“The most amazing thing is that we can push back the emergence Y. pestis 2,000 years further than previously published research suggests,” Ben Krause-Kyora, one of the report’s authors, quoted from Eurekalert.
It seems we are very close to the origin bacteria that.”
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