For EEMB40: Ecology of Disease class at UC Santa Barbara.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
In 2003 New Scientist magazine reported on the contradictory results produced by a French and a British lab looking for evidence of Yersinia pestis DNA from plague corpses: Case reopens on black death cause The case remains far from solved. Until we dig up some more corpses.....
"If I can get some soft tissue from the plague, I'll look again," he says. In Finland, for example, there may be victims buried in permafrost.
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