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A Forgotten Eruption Could Rewrite the Black Death Origin Story
New research suggests that volcanic eruptions may have triggered climate cooling and famine that pushed Italian city-states to import grain from the Black Sea—unknowingly bringing plague-infected fleas with it. Volcanic Cooling and the Conditions for a Medieval Pandemic Research published today (December 4) in Communications Earth & Environment proposes that volcanic activity may have intensified [...]