Monday, February 16, 2015

Ancient Graveyard in Italy may Yield Clues on Evolution of Cholera

An ancient graveyard surrounding the abandoned Badia Pozzeveri church in the Tuscany region of Italy may help archaeologists and other researchers yield clues on cholera's evolution. The researchers are excavating the graveyard which contains victims of the cholera epidemic that swept the world in the 1850s. The dead bodies of the cholera victims were hastily buried and covered in lime, which hardened like concrete around the bodies. Researchers suspect that the ...

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