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   Scientists say they've solved a 700-year-old mystery: Where and when   
   Black Death began   
      
   Where did the Black Death come from? And when did it first appear?   
      
   As the deadliest pandemic in recorded history - it killed an estimated   
   50 million people in Europe and the Mediterranean between 1346 and   
   1353 -- it's a question that has plagued scientists and historians for   
   nearly 700 years.   
      
   Now, researchers say they've found the genetic ancestor of the Black   
   Death, which still infects thousands of people each year. New   
   research, published this month in the journal Nature, provides   
   biological evidence that places the ancestral origins of Black Death   
   in Central Asia, in what is now modern-day Kyrgyzstan.   
      
   What's more, the researchers find that the strain from this region   
   "gave rise to the majority of [modern plague] strains circulating in   
   the world today," says Phil Slavin, co-author on the paper and a   
   historian at the University of Stirling in Scotland.   
      
   But like many a mystery, this one isn't so easily solved.   
      
      
      
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