The team of International Scientists, led by Tubingen University, revealed that the first challenge of the “Black Death” pathogy, a epidemic of the plague of the XIV century, emerged in Central Asia. The results of the study were published in Nature Magazine.
For the first time, in the end of the 19th century, when archaeologists found tombstones near Lake Issyk-Kul in Modern Kyrgyzstan, interest in the origins of pandema emerged. Some of them had Syrian inscriptions that showed plague as the cause of the death of those buried. However, for a long time, scientists could not correctly connect these findings with their pandemi falling to Europe in 1347.
New studies using modern molecular technologies have helped to fill this gap. The analysis of the DNA of the ruins found in the tombs of Issyk-Kul made it possible to fully determine that the death of people was caused by the plague caused by pesticide bacteria. In addition, the researchers confirmed that the first strain of the Black Death Pathojen emerged in Central Asia in 1338.
Maria Spiru, the leading writer of the study, said, “We were able to determine the first and plague stretching and we dated the appearance correctly.”
Johannes Krause, the Director of the Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, added that the modern yersinia pestis strains associated with the old version of the pathogen are still in the natural focus of the plague in the Tien Shahan region. This is a mining system found in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, China, Tajikistan and partly in Uzbekistan.
This confirms that Central Asia has become the center for the emergence of pandema. More genetic analysis showed that the same species later spread to Europe.
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Source: Gazeta
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