1,500-Year-Old Mystery Solved: Scientists Rewrite the Origins of the World’s First Pandemic

USF and FAU researchers identify bacterium behind 1,500-year-old pandemic mystery. For the first time, scientists have obtained direct genomic evidence of the bacterium responsible for the Plague of ... Read More

Mystery of World's First Known Pandemic Solved

Scientists have found the "missing piece" of the puzzle behind the devastating disease that reshaped the Byzantine Empire. Read More

History's first pandemic: Ancient DNA solves mystery of what caused 1,500-year-old epidemic

In an extraordinary breakthrough, scientists have traced the deadly bacterium behind the world’s earliest recorded pandemic to its epicentre for the first time. The Justinian Plague, which devastated ... Read More

USF, FAU researchers uncover the cause of history's first recorded pandemic

The discovery sheds new light on the Plague of Justinian, which may have killed 50 million people during the sixth century. Read More

DNA study reveals origin of world’s first pandemic

Scientists have deciphered the genome of the bacterium behind the world's first recorded pandemic that swept through the eastern Mediterranean about 1,500 years ago. Researchers found Yersinia pestis, ... Read More

The "Plague Of Justinian" May Have Been The First Pandemic. DNA At A Mass Grave Has Finally Identified Its Cause.

A new study has found direct genetic evidence pointing to the cause of the devastating "Plague of Justinian" first described nearly 1,500 years ago. Reports of the disease first came around 541 CE in ... Read More

Ancient DNA solves 1,500-year-old mystery that caused ‘world’s first pandemic’

Researchers have finally solved the mysterious culprit behind the “world’s first recorded pandemic” — the Plague of Justinian (AD 541–750). For the first time, researchers have found direct genetic ... Read More