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"Published in History TodayVolume 55 Issue 3 March 2005" The article is a bit old, and misses out on the large amount of genetic evidence since then sequenced
by BorisVSchmid 10y ago
"Published in History TodayVolume 55 Issue 3 March 2005"
The article is a bit old, and misses out on the large amount of genetic evidence since then sequenced and analyzed. Cui et al found that the closest living relatives to the Black Death stem from north-west China. That is about the only evidence we have on where the Black Death came from, and it does point to an origin in or near China.
http://www.pnas.org/content/110/2/577.figures-only http://www.pnas.org/content/110/2/577.figures-only