Black Death Origins Solved After Almost 7 Centuries-Do We need that Long For Covid-19

Black Death Origins Solved After Almost 7 Centuries

The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East from 1346 to 1353 and it is recorded as the most fatal pandemic in human history, causing the death of 75–200 million people, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. 

The plague first struck Europe in 1347 from ships sailing on the Mediterranean Sea after appearing beforehand around the Black Sea. It spread quickly, killing an estimated 60 percent of people in Asia, Europe, Middle East and North Africa.

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Scientists believe they have finally pinpointed the origins of the 14th-century bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, to a cemetery in modern-day Kyrgyzstan after analyzing ancient teeth.

DNA taken from teeth from seven bodies buried in 1338 and 1339 near Lake Issyk Kul was sequenced as it gave researchers “high chances of detecting blood-borne pathogens” - the plague bacterium was found in three of the samples.

The small sample size has drawn minor questions from other researchers, however; records exist of deadly mystery plagues in Mongolia and north-east China in the 1320s.

We won’t need that long to crack Covid, will we?

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