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'Black Death' germ has afflicted humankind longer than suspected

Reuters: Science - Posted: October 22nd, 2015, 4:44pm UTC

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The plague germ that caused the "Black Death" in the 14th century and other ferocious pandemics has stalked humankind far longer than previously known.br clear='all'/img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654220/s/4ae5da3c/sc/3/mf.gif' border='0'/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=migTg7q-DrM:8CE-oeqgdH0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=migTg7q-DrM:8CE-oeqgdH0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=migTg7q-DrM:8CE-oeqgdH0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=migTg7q-DrM:8CE-oeqgdH0:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=migTg7q-DrM:8CE-oeqgdH0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/migTg7q-DrM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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