A team of researchers excavating mass burial sites in England has detected the DNA of the bacteria that caused the plague in human skeletal remains — and they are the oldest known cases of the disease in Great Britain.
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The samples of the plague-causing bacteria were found at two different mass burial sites: one in southwest England in the county of Somerset and the other in the northwestern county of Cumbria, near the border of England and Scotland. How do researchers locate 4,000-year-old bacteria? The team took samples from the skeletal remains of 34 individuals across the two sites, according to the study.
When it comes to the disease, there is a lot that scientists still don't know — including how it spread, Swali said. Researchers can't tell whether the disease caused by the bacteria would have been mild or fatal, he added. The individuals in the Somerset site appeared to have died from trauma — not disease, according to the research.
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