Yersinia pestis clearly identified as the cause of the big plague epidemic of the Middle Ages
Saturday, October 9, 2010 - 04:40
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The latest tests conducted by anthropologists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have proven that the bacteria Yersinia pestis was indeed the causative agent behind the 'Black Death' that raged across Europe in the Middle Ages...