Collapse of Aztec society linked to catastrophic salmonella outbreak

Thursday, February 16, 2017 - 14:31 in Health & Medicine

DNA of 500-year-old bacteria is first direct evidence of an epidemic — one of humanity's deadliest — that occurred after Spanish conquest.Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.21485

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