Black Death Pathogen Lurked in Britain Millennia Before Plague Struck

The DNA of a strain of bacteria responsible for the infamous Black Death plague has been found in the teeth of three individuals found buried in the UK thousands of years before the deadly pandemics raged across Europe.
Two of those individuals, determined to be young adolescents, were buried in a mass grave in Charterhouse Warren in Somerset; the third was a middle-aged woman aged around 35 to 45 buried in a ring cairn monument in Levens in Cumbria. All three lived at around the same time, although it's unclear whether plague was the cause of their deaths.
Black Death Pathogen Lurked in Britain Millennia Before Plague Struck