Not ours, but the Black Death. Interesting that it has been found to originate from Central Asia. And it also started a huge series of rolling plagues that lasted hundreds of years. Nuts. So even the Defoe journal I read was possibly about the Plague (I mean I knew it was the plague, but I thought it had just been around with varying levels of success as a vector) as a variation of the Black Death.
Hence, the ancient Central Asian strain that caused the 1338-1339 epidemic around Lake Issyk Kul must have come from one such reservoir. “We found that modern strains most closely related to the ancient strain are today found in plague reservoirs around the Tian Shan mountains, so very close to where the ancient strain was found. This points to an origin of Black Death’s ancestor in Central Asia”, explains Johannes Krause, senior author of the study and director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Well that's better to read than people screaming about twitter. Again, any of these major websites go down and I fail to see how it's a bad thing. Could be me hatin' given my lack of success on said websites, but so be it.
