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Who Suffered During a Plague Outbreak? - Archaeology Magazine
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Who Suffered During a Plague Outbreak? - Archaeology Magazine
BASEL, SWITZERLAND—According to a statement released by Antiquity, analysis of skeletal remains recovered from a seventeenth-century hospital cemetery in Basel, Switzerland, suggests that young laborers were the people most likely to die during an outbreak of plague. As a trade center that drew people in from abroad, the city of Basel was vulnerable to the spread of Yersinia pestis bacteria and outbreaks of plague. The last recorded outbreak of …
Tombs from the 17th century appeared during excavations under the Basel City Casino, including plague burials. The analysis of researchers at the University of Basel shows that young people from the lower strata of the disease were particularly victims.
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