Thursday, October 8, 2015

A Few Mutant Genes Can Turn a Stomach Bug into the Black Death

Scientists have long known that one little microbe is responsible for the infamous Black Death plague that decimated Western Europe in the Middle Ages, wiping out roughly one-third of the population. Now they’ve learned more about where it comes from: it takes just a few small genetic changes to turn a mild stomach bug into a killer.

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