Summary: The Black Death Decoded

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Interestingly, there are many articles that discuss the black plague outbreak; and, while all articles relate to the Black Death (plague outbreak), few bring a different perspective, for example:
• The Black Death Decoded explores elements analyzed with findings of a similar strain of Yersinia, as Zeigler alludes to Yersinia throughout his book.
• The Black Death discusses the Genome of Yersinia pestis, which relates to the bacteria that causes bubonic plague (a definite point Zeigler argues).
Of course, there have been a lot of questions and suspicions about the effects of the Black Death, and its arrival to England as well as the mortality rate, but Zeigler suggest “between a third and half the people must have died” (p. 128) from the