500 years later, scientists discover what probably killed the Aztecs | World news | The Guardian

500 years later, scientists discover what probably killed the Aztecs | World news | The Guardian: 500 years later, scientists discover what probably killed the Aztecs | World news | The Guardian



On Monday scientists swept aside smallpox, measles, mumps, and influenza as likely suspects, identifying a typhoid-like “enteric fever” for which they found DNA evidence on the teeth of long-dead victims