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Viral Evolution: Mummy Virus Challenges Presumed History of Smallpox.

Current biology : CB - 6 Feb 2017

Wertheim Joel O

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Despite evidence of smallpox in antiquity, a new study of a 350 year-old Lithuanian child mummy suggests that the global viral genetic diversity circulating during the 20th century was only around 200 years old.

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PMID: 28171759
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.008

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