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Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Journal of Medicine, 21(367), p. 2057-2059

DOI: 10.1056/nejmc1208124

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Variola Virus in a 300-Year-Old Siberian Mummy

Journal article published in 2012 by Philippe Biagini, Catherine Thèves, Patricia Balaresque, Annie Géraut, Catherine Cannet, Christine Keyser, Dariya Nikolaeva, Patrice Gérard, Sylvie Duchesne, Ludovic Orlando, Eske Willerslev, Anatoly N. Alekseev, Philippe de Micco, Bertrand Ludes, Eric Crubézy ORCID
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Abstract

Variola Virus in a 300-Year-Old Mummy 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.