The Killer Bacteria Hall of Fame no doubt houses the usual suspects: Yersinia pestis , perpetrator of the Plague; Treponema pallidum, the spiral-shaped culprit in syphilis ; and Vibrio cholerae , the swimmer that causes cholera .
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DNA from a mass grave found in Athens in the mid-1990s helped experts identify typhoid fever as a possible source of the plague that killed off one quarter of the city’s population in the fifth century
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