The latest tests conducted by anthropologists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have proven that the bacteria Yersinia pestis was indeed the causative agent behind the "Black Death" that raged across Europe in the Middle Ages.
The cause of the epidemic has always remained highly controversial and other pathogens were often named as possible causes, in particular for the northern European regions.
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The cause of the epidemic has always remained highly controversial and other pathogens were often named as possible causes, in particular for the northern European regions.
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