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May 8, 2014 · The Black Death, a plague that first devastated Europe in the 1300s, had a silver lining. After the ravages of the disease, surviving Europeans lived longer, a new study finds.
- Stephanie Pappas, Livescience
Mar 18, 2008 · Why did some people survive the Black Death, and others succumb? At the time of the plague – which ravaged Europe from 1347 to 1351, carrying off 50 million people, perhaps half the population – various prophylactics were tried, from the killing of birds, cats and rats to the wearing of leather breeches (protecting the legs from flea bites ...
Oct 19, 2022 · Black Death survivors gave their descendants a genetic advantage — but with a cost. Researchers extracted DNA from the remains of people buried in the East Smithfield plague pits, which were ...
- Michaeleen Doucleff
Oct 27, 2022 · A new study examined ancient DNA samples from the bones of over 200 individuals from London and Denmark who died before, during, and after the Black Death plague swept through the region in the late 1340s. Image courtesy of Wellcome Library, London.
May 7, 2014 · A new study suggests that people who survived the medieval mass-killing plague known as the Black Death lived significantly longer and were healthier than people who lived before the epidemic struck in 1347.
Oct 19, 2022 · But now, by analyzing DNA from those old bones and others from London and Denmark, Klunk and her colleagues have found an answer: The survivors were much more likely to carry gene variants that boosted their immune response to Yersinia pestis, the flea-borne bacterium that causes the plague.
Oct 19, 2022 · The researchers found that carrying two protective versions of a gene called ERAP2, for example, made people 40 percent likelier to survive the Black Death — the largest evolutionary...
