Skull of a soldier from the Napoleon army next to a button from a soldier's uniform.
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DNA analysis reveals likely pathogens that killed Napoleon’s army

State-of-the-art methodologies Painting of Napoleon’s army. Credit: Barbieri et al., Current Biology/CC BY-SA Rascovan and his co-authors note in their paper that the 2006 study relied upon outdated PCR-based technologies for its DNA analysis. As for the virus family detected in the Kalingrad dental pulp, they argue that those viruses are both ubiquitous and usually...