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"textContent": "The plague's first victims weren't Neolithic farmers; it killed hunter-gatherers in Siberia 5,500 years ago, per a new study in Nature . Researchers have identified the oldest-known evidence of plague by testing teeth from prehistoric skeletons buried along the Angara River. DNA from Yersinia pestis was found in about 40%...",
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