researcher finds almost 6000 year old DNA of plague bacteria, it's preserved well enough to confirm it belonged to the same strain that killed large numbers of Europeans in the Middle Ages>plague seems to originate from South Siberian rat-monkeyhttps://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/mullistava-dna-loyto-paljastaa-tuhoa-niittaneen-taudin-syyn/9355070ancients Slavs living in South Siberia 5 500 years ago, were bitten by South Siberian rat monkey which started a local plague, the first knownthese people were slavic hunter gatherers who had not yet tamed even horsesresearchers found 5500 year old massgrave and several skeletons were marked with plague bacteria DNAonce people get bitten, they start to infect other poeple by touch but exchange of fluids is more effective, nevertheless the sole touch is sometimes enough66% of the skeletons were not older than 15, the disease had killed young people more than eldersall of them had died within marging of 50 years (if dating is reliable, its hard to say who died 5500 years ago and who did 5550 years ago)at least dating is reliable to place events as happening around 5500 years ago
Slavs were fucking the rat-monkey
>>537371522is it even possible to score a chick like that as a mid white dude? I ain't reading your block of text, son
>>537371522yersinia pestis is still around
>>537371922yes it has been going for 5000-6000 yearsbut humans are not its natural host
It's a good example of herd immunity, all the humans most likely to die of it died of it, everyone left has some measure of resistance.The only way the plague will plague us again is if a Big Pharma company does gain of function research on it so they can patent another "vaccine"
>>537371522> it sounds like you might be referring to the iconic Sumatran Rat-Monkey (often playfully or erroneously localized as a "Siberian" rat monkey). This infamous, fictional creature is the patient zero of the rage plague from Peter Jackson's 1992 cult classic horror-comedy movie Braindead (released as Dead Alive in North America).
lily ugly
>>537371522sounds fake and gay
>>537371522>rat monkeyA what?
Is this a Braindead-Dead Alive joke?
>>537373954>rat monkeyneanderkike, obviously
>>537371522>once people get bitten>rat monkey>article says they got the plague from eating raw marmot meathmmm, what would be the reason for lying?>>537373954The rat monkey is a fictional creature from the movie Dead Alive. OP is a faggot.
>>537371522The original English media story the Finnish rat-monkeys stole it from>The hunter-gatherers probably became infected after butchering or eating raw marmots, a risky practice that still causes plague deaths today.https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/17/ancient-dna-evidence-earliest-known-plague-outbreak
