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posted by janrinok on Thursday October 03 2019, @07:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-why-it's-called-the-Black-Sea dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

In the 14th century, the Black Death wiped out as much as 60% of the population of Europe, spreading rapidly from the shores of the Black Sea to central Europe. Although historical records first document its appearance in 1346 C.E. in the lower Volga region of Russia, researchers didn’t know whether the highly virulent strain of Yersinia pestis bacterium that caused the deadly pandemic came from a single source or was introduced to Europe more than once by travelers carrying diverse strains of plague from different parts of the ancient world.

Now, by analyzing 34 ancient genomes of Y. pestis from the teeth of people buried at 10 sites across Europe from the 14th to 17th centuries (including a mass grave in Toulouse, France—above), researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, have found the earliest known evidence of this pandemic comes from Laishevo, in Russia’s Volga region. There, researchers found a strain of Y. pestis that was ancestral to all other genomes they studied, differing by only one mutation from those that caused the Black Death in Europe, they report today in Nature Communications.

That doesn’t mean the Volga region was ground zero for the Black Death—it could have come from elsewhere in western Asia, where scientists have yet to sample ancient DNA of Y. pestis.

doi:10.1126/science.aaz7019


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by ikanreed on Thursday October 03 2019, @08:10PM (6 children)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 03 2019, @08:10PM (#902416) Journal

    The dream outcome is that we get both trump and biden in jail. Hillary too.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @09:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @09:08PM (#902429)

    Yes that's right everyone's doing it. Everyone's guilty. Noone's guilty. 50-50.

  • (Score: 3, Troll) by linkdude64 on Thursday October 03 2019, @11:27PM (4 children)

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Thursday October 03 2019, @11:27PM (#902472)

    Not that I'm running to Trump's defense (even though I am) but it absolutely *baffles* me how buying and selling real estate for a profit, and following tax law (as corrupt as it is) can be compared to child trafficking, enormous political pushes for censorship, the kidnapping and deaths of haitian children, approval of nuclear material sales to Russia (and then a coincidental multi-million dollar donation from the Russian power company to the Clinton Foundation), having Huma Abedin (On the Saudi government's payroll!!!!) as head assistant while working at the state department, among many others. Trump is simply not an evil man. Hillary is simply an evil woman.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday October 04 2019, @12:28AM (3 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 04 2019, @12:28AM (#902486) Journal

      Not that I'm running to Trump's defense (even though I am)

      Seriously, dude, whataboutism is no defense, everyone is (or should be held) responsible for their own actions.
      Two wrongs don't make right only because one is lesser than the other.

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      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @01:34AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @01:34AM (#902506)

        When it comes election time, balancing one party against the other is EXACTLY what you do.

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday October 04 2019, @07:57AM

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 04 2019, @07:57AM (#902562) Journal

          And you want me to think that the act of balancing must mean "defending" them.
          No wonder your politics is so fucked.

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      • (Score: 1, Troll) by hemocyanin on Friday October 04 2019, @09:37AM

        by hemocyanin (186) on Friday October 04 2019, @09:37AM (#902566) Journal

        I'm so sick of the "whataboutism" retort -- it is the principle that one should ignore the corruption of one party in favor of the other. In the current context it means: Ignore that Biden did what Trump did to enrich Hunter.

        The problem with focusing on ONLY this, is that if the Democrats get rid of Republicans, you get Democrats, who are just as shifty and slimy, except they don't face any criticism. Example, GWB 2.0 -- Obama embraced and extended everything Democrats "hated" (or so they said) about GWB, and Democrats went not just silent, they treat him like Jesus 2.0. It's like a prostitute calling another prostitute a whore -- it just doesn't carry much weight to a bystander.