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DNA taken from the skeletons of plague victims in medieval London has unearthed a shocking revelation – the Black Death is still present today. 从中世纪伦敦瘟疫受害者的尸骨上提取出的DNA揭示了一个震惊世人的消息—黑死病现在仍然存在。 Bodies of victims show that part of the same sequence of genes still exists, hundreds of years later. 也就是说，这些受害者的尸体上发现的基因，百年之后依旧毫无变化。 The Black Death claimed the lives of one-third of Europe's population in just five years from 1348 to 1353. 黑死病在1348年到1353年这短短的五年时间里夺去了欧洲大陆近三分之一的人口。 Filthy living conditions in 14th Britain have been blamed for allowing the Black Death to spread. It remains one of the most destructive pandemics in history which peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350. Experts say it reduced the world's population from an estimated 450 million to almost 350 million in 1400. In 1603 the killer plague returned and killed 38,000 Londoners. 14世纪英国恶劣的居住环境被认为是造成黑死病传播的主要原因。它是史上破坏性最大的流行病之一，在1348到1350年之间的欧洲达到顶峰。专家称黑死病导致世界人口从四亿五千万左右骤降至1400年的三亿五千万。在1603年，黑死病又卷土重来并且夺去了三万八千伦敦人的性命。 | 
