Summary

The textbooks and history lessons tend to treat the Black Death as one devastating wave of pestilence that hit Europe between 1347 and 1353. However, the full story of the disease goes on for many centuries more. In a new study published in PNAS , researchers led by a team from the University of Tartu in Estonia reveal how the plague returned again and again in different regions, through until the 18th century.

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