4,000-year-old remains in Somerset and Cumbria carried the bacteria that causes plague.
. The most famous symptom is the swelling of lymph nodes in those infected with the bubonic plague.
. It’s an ancient disease, as evidenced by the three Bronze Age individuals that carried it to their graves.Yersinia pestis
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