It marks the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia, indicating that the disease was present in North Africa ...

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In a revelation that could rewrite the history of pandemics, researchers have unearthed astonishing evidence of the bubonic ...

An over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague marks the first case of the disease outside the ...

Usually transmitted by fleas hitching a ride on rodents, the bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system, and initially ...

Researchers found the first evidence of the bubonic plague outside of Europe and Asia in an Egyptian mummy housed in Turin, ...

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