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From it killed about 60 million people. German biologists have discovered that the causative agent in the plague epidemic known as the plague Justiniana, was particularly contagious strain of the bacteria Yersinia pestis. Scientists have identified the DNA of the microorganism from the skeletons of people who lived in the …

In the Altai Republic the child had contracted the bubonic plague while cutting a Groundhog, which the family gathered to eat. According to Life, a ten year old boy helped grandpa to butcher a Groundhog produced on the hunt. The child had cut himself and contracted the infection through blood. …