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    Black Death bug which killed 100million in 14th century plague still exists in modern day Britain

    DNA taken from the skeletons of plague victims in medieval London has unearthed a shocking revelation – the Black Death is still present today.

    Bodies of victims, who were buried in a mass ‘plague graves’ in the capital, show that part of the same sequence of genes still exists, hundreds of years later.

    The Black Death claimed the lives of one-third of Europe’s population in just five years from 1348 to 1353.