BOCA RATON, Florida, Aug. 30 (TNSjou) -- Florida Atlantic University, a component of the state university system in Florida, issued the following news: * * * New FAU-USF Research Rewrites Origins of the World's First Pandemic By Cody R. Hawley For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian - the world's first recorded pandemic - in the Eastern Mediterranean, where the outbreak was first described nearly 1,500 years ago.   more