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The Genomic Landscape of Post-Black Death Epidemics in Northern Europe and the Caucasus

2026-08-28

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One of the most devastating events in human history, the Black Death (c.1347-1353), marked the beginning of the Second Plague Pandemic. After initially receding, plague returned in intermittent outbreaks throughout Europe, beginning with the pestis secunda. Despite its significance, the post-Black Death epidemiology of Yersinia pestis remains poorly understood. Here, we report 23 new Y. pestis genomes recovered fr...

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Literature Corpus work: 74607afc-fc35-52e9-b710-30480660c2a2
DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.25.746822

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