Reueters Lifestyle Science Ancient DNA Solves Black Death Mystery
Excerpt: Researchers said on Wednesday they retrieved ancient DNA traces of the Yersinia pestis plague bacterium from the teeth of three women buried in a medieval Nestorian Christian community in Chu Valley near Lake Issyk Kul in the foothills of the Tian Shan mountains who perished in 1338-1339. The earliest deaths documented elsewhere in the pandemic were in 1346.
Interesting article! (That's Central Asia in norther Kyrgystan.)
