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Yersinia pestis

   https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/local-regional-communities-and-organizations/cidrap/993417-cidrap-plague-may-have-begun-wiping-out-europeans-long-before-middle-ages or https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/local-regional-communities-and-organizations/cidrap/993417-cidrap-plague-may-have-begun-wiping-out-europeans-long-before-middle-ages ;
Plague, which is associated with bacteria-carrying fleas and rodents and can spread from person to person via respiratory droplets, killed up to half the European population, which equates to as many as 200 million people. It is characterized by lymph-node swellings, fever, muscle aches, and weakness and is caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria.

"In the period between 5,300 and 4,900 calibrated years before present (cal. BP), populations across large parts of Europe underwent a period of demographic decline," the study authors noted. "However, the cause of this so-called Neolithic decline is still debated," with experts disagreeing on whether it was caused by an agricultural crisis, war, or an early form of the plague.

Plague found in 17% of remains

Plague was detected in the 5,000-year-old DNA of at least 17% of the sampled population across large geographic distances. Analysis of one family revealed at least three distinct infection events over roughly 120 years and found direct genomic evidence of the practice of mating outside of a social group in a woman buried separately from her brothers.

DJ, Pandemics are allover in human history...Diseases jumping from one species to another-no "lab-leak-claims" needed...