Scientists recovered ancient smallpox DNA from two Indigenous mummies in Chile, providing the first genetic evidence that the ...

More than 400 years ago, two people living in modern day Chile died while infected with the smallpox virus. Viral DNA found in their mummified remains has now yielded genetic evidence of when the ...

Ancient mummy DNA recovered in Chile has yielded the firmest evidence yet that European colonization brought smallpox to the ...

Analysis of DNA from Chilean mummies has revealed the earliest known genome of the smallpox virus recovered from the Americas ...

Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus ...

Learn how centuries-old DNA linked an extinct virus to European colonization and its spread through an Indigenous community ...

Centuries-old DNA that was found in these mummies belongs to an extinct viral lineage of smallpox that was brought across the ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have recovered and analyzed the first ancient smallpox virus genomes ever identified ...

Researchers have discovered direct molecular evidence of smallpox brought from Europe to the Americas, leading to ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Fenn describes how smallpox shaped Wyoming and the West during the Revolutionary War ...

When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the New World some five centuries ago, they brought muskets, cannons, armor, horses and ...

Smallpox, the only human infectious disease to have been successfully eradicated, ailed people at least 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. A study of DNA sampled from Viking Age skeletons ...