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Salmonella Could Have Caused 16th-Century Epidemic

Jan 17, 2018 · 3 min
0:00-3:14

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Using a new algorithm, geneticists uncovered the pathogen that could have caused a massive epidemic in the Aztec empire: Salmonella bacteria. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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