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  "path": "/news/11909954/oldest-known-plague-outbreak-siberia/",
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  "textContent": "There were thoughts that early strains may have been mild, but the discovery that the plague killed prehistoric hunter-gatherers contradicts ​those notions.",
  "title": "New evidence of origin of the black death a ‘complete surprise’ experts say"
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