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The Black Death | 2. origins & spread

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What Caused the Black Death?

In the years since monica first found herself so annoyed by that black hole atthe centre of black death studies, our understandings of what caused the panademic have been transformed. One of those transformations is the result of being able to answer one of the most simple questions of all, what exactly caused the black death? So the question of the cause, the biological cause of it, there has been a transformation, absolute change. And that has to do with paleogenetics,. A kind of genetic analysis of looking for the molecular material remains of the organism which would have caused a disease. The initial break through was when scientists sequenced ancient dna from eit ana.

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