The Vikings, propagators of smallpox in the Middle Ages? From the teeth of a dozen Vikings who lived between AD 600 and AD 1050 in Denmark, Sweden or Russia, the team of Danish geneticist Eske Willerslev identified a sister strain of the modern smallpox virus. , according to results published at the end of July in Science.
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