Vikings had smallpox and may have helped spread the world's deadliest virus

ScienceDaily
Jul 23, 2020, 2:37 pm139 pts
Scientists have discovered extinct strains of smallpox in the teeth of Viking skeletons - proving for the first time that the killer disease plagued humanity for at least 1400 years. Smallpox spread via infectious droplets, killed around a third of sufferers and left another third permanently scarred or blind.…

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