05 JAN

DNA analysis of mummified 2-year-old from 16th century shows she died of hepatitis B

An international team of disease detectives has shed new light on a virus that kills almost a million people around the world each year by probing an unusual source — the mummified remains of a young child who died about 450 years ago in Renaissance Italy.

CBC | Health News

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