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Plague linked to the mysterious decline of Europe’s first farmers

Researchers discover 4,900-year-old strain of bacterium in Neolithic burial pit.
  1. Ewen Callaway
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Europe’s first farming populations were wiped out by plague, say researchers who have identified genomes of a 4,900-year-old strain of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis from a Neolithic burial site in Sweden.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07673-7

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