Samples of the Black Death , which wiped out as many as 50 million people in medieval Europe, have been found in an ancient Egyptian mummy. The pandemic, also known as bubonic plague, spread quickly through the continent on the fleas carried by rats. Symptoms of the killer disease included horrific skin sores, swollen lymph nodes and a sudden high fever and it got its grisly nickname as victims’ tongues would turn black. Recently, a team of archaeologists took samples from an ancient Egyptian

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