Malaria already endemic in the Mediterranean by the Roman period

Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 10:02 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Malaria was already widespread on Sardinia by the Roman period, long before the Middle Ages, as research on a Roman who died 2,000 years ago indicates.

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