Almost 500 Years Later, Scientists Confirm
What Killed The Aztecs
By Katie Serena, AllThat'Interesting, March 6, 2024
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Almost 500 years after the society crumbled,
researchers have finally discovered what
happened to the Aztecs

The paper is:

Vågene, Å.J., Herbig, A., Campana, M.G., Robles
García, N.M., Warinner, C., Sabin, S., Spyrou, M.A.,
Andrades Valtueña, A., Huson, D., Tuross, N. and
Bos, K.I., 2018. Salmonella enterica genomes from
victims of a major sixteenth-century epidemic in
Mexico. Nature ecology & evolution, 2(3), pp.520-528.

Abstract at: [www.nature.com]

PDF file at [www.biorxiv.org]

Related paper:

De-Dios, T., Carrion, P., Olalde, I., Nadal, L.L., Lizano,
E., Pàmies, D., Marques-Bonet, T., Balloux, F.,
van Dorp, L. and Lalueza-Fox, C., 2021. Salmonella
enterica from a soldier from the 1652 siege of Barcelona
(Spain) supports historical transatlantic epidemic
contacts. Iscience, 24(9).
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Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)