Putting Africa on the Black Death map: Narratives from genetics and history

Did the Black Death, the famous, devastating plague pandemic that struck the Mediterranean and Western Europe in the mid-14th century and seeded new strains of the pathogen, Yersinia pestis, in new locales, also reach Sub-Saharan Africa? That it reached the Islamic North African littoral has never b...

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Main Author: Monica H. Green
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Institut des Mondes Africains 2018-12-01
Series:Afriques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/afriques/2125
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