'Maiden' Inca mummy had lung infection
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
The so-called Maiden mummy of a 15-year-old Incan girl who was sacrificed 500 years ago is giving up some secrets, revealing the teenager suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of her death, scientists report Wednesday.
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