Variola Virus in a 300-Year-Old Siberian Mummy

  • Biagini P
  • Thèves C
  • Balaresque P
  • et al.
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Abstract

This letter describes a distant lineage of the variola virus (the agent of smallpox) that was identified in a mummy found buried in the Siberian permafrost.

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Biagini, P., Thèves, C., Balaresque, P., Géraut, A., Cannet, C., Keyser, C., … Crubézy, E. (2012). Variola Virus in a 300-Year-Old Siberian Mummy. New England Journal of Medicine, 367(21), 2057–2059. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmc1208124

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