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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Carl Zimmer summarizes a new paper which surprisingly (and thoroughly) suggests a deadly Plague outbreak ca 5000 BP in Lake Baikal area, millennia before it was thought the infectious agent was deadly (gift link) 🏺 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/s...

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A Deadly Outbreak of Plague, Nearly 5,000 Years Before the Black Death

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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Full study by MacLeod et al is available open access @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago - Nature

Analyses of ancient DNA from hunter-gatherers near Lake Baikal in southeast Siberia around 5,500 years ago indicate that highly virulent Yersinia pestis emerged earlier than previously estimated, far&...

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