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1,500-Year-Old Mystery Solved: Scientists Rewrite the Origins of the World’s First Pandemic


USF and FAU researchers identify bacterium behind 1,500-year-old pandemic mystery. For the first time, scientists have obtained direct genomic evidence of the bacterium responsible for the Plague of Justinian, the earliest known pandemic in recorded history. The outbreak, which struck the Eastern

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