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Vikings had smallpox and may have helped spread the world’s deadliest virus (www.cam.ac.uk)

Scientists have discovered extinct strains of smallpox in the teeth of Viking skeletons – proving for the first time that the killer disease plagued humanity for at least 1400 years.

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