Title:
5,000-year-old man was 'oldest plague victim'
Author:
Helen Briggs, BBC Science correspondent
Published:
BBC News, 29 June 2021
From the article:
Scientists have identified a new contender for "patient zero" in the plague that caused the Black Death.
A man who died more than 5,000 years ago in Latvia was infected with the earliest-known strain of the disease, according to new evidence.