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Venice’s Hidden Time Capsule: Lazzaretto Vecchio as a 300-Year Molecular Archive of Epidemic Pathogens

2025-12-03

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<h4>Background: </h4> Lazzaretto Vecchio (old Lazaret), founded in 1423 in the Venetian lagoon, is the world’s earliest permanent quarantine hospital. For nearly three centuries, it served as the primary containment and burial site for both residents and travelers, who died under suspicion of infectious disease. Historical records describe tens of thousands of deaths during major Venetian plague epidemics and mand...

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Literature Corpus work: 420e1f9e-6090-5b90-9dd0-f7f5a20dbfcc
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202512.0373.v1

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