A study of DNA sampled from skeletons from the Viking Age found the presence of smallpox in 11 individuals living in northern Europe, which is now Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Russia, and the United Kingdom, between 600 and 1050 AD. “The 1,400-year-old genetic information extracted from these skeletons is enormously important …
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