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Hundreds of bodies found in Dominican church help epidemiologists explain how disease spread in the past
Samples from mummies in a Hungarian crypt have revealed that multiple tuberculosis strains derived from a single Roman ancestor that circulated in 18th-century Europe, scientists said Tuesday.
Their findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, drew on a remarkable, if gruesome, source.
In 1994, workers restoring a Dominican church in Vac, Hungary, stumbled upon the remains of more than 200 people whose corpses had become naturally mummified.
Read more: Mummified corpses in Hungarian crypt reveal clues to tuberculosis origins | World news | The Guardian
Samples from mummies in a Hungarian crypt have revealed that multiple tuberculosis strains derived from a single Roman ancestor that circulated in 18th-century Europe, scientists said Tuesday.
Their findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, drew on a remarkable, if gruesome, source.
In 1994, workers restoring a Dominican church in Vac, Hungary, stumbled upon the remains of more than 200 people whose corpses had become naturally mummified.
Read more: Mummified corpses in Hungarian crypt reveal clues to tuberculosis origins | World news | The Guardian
