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Music lines and stores subject to availability ends 14th of February. It's Wednesday, June 15th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. A new lead on the origin of the

Black Death. Plus, monkeypox will soon, thankfully, be getting a new name, and Internet Explorer

is being put to rest at last today.

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Well, bad news for anyone hoping will get clarity on the origin of COVID-19 anytime soon.

Nearly 700 years later, we are still getting more info on the origin of the Black Death.

Now, the Black Death was the most widespread outbreak of the bubonic plague in Afro-Eurasia

in the mid-14th century, although technically not the first outbreak. Medical historian Mary Fissel

told the New York Times that the OG outbreak was actually the plague of Justinian in the 6th century.

But the 14th century one is cited as the deadliest pandemic in recorded human history,

with different data sets claiming anywhere from 25 to 200 million casualties, or between 5 and 40%

of the global population at the time. Even though the Black Death usually refers to that initial outbreak from 1347 to 1352,

the bubonic plague still reared its ugly, puscious head regularly for centuries thereafter,

particularly spiking in the 15 and 1600s in Europe and the Mediterranean.

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