Hunter-gatherers in Siberia fell victim to lethal plague outbreaks around 5,500 years ago, marking the oldest known evidence of plague to date, a new study finds.
A research team investigating the Stone Age remains identified ancient DNA ion over a dozen individuals that came from previously unknown strains of Yersinia pestis, a bacterium that causes pneumonic, bubonic and septicemic plague.
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