DNA Solves 400-Year Medici Poisoning Mystery: Malaria, Not Murder

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For 400 years, historians suspected poison killed Medici Grand Duke Francesco I. Ancient DNA from his bones just confirmed the real killer: a previously unknown strain of malaria that also reshaped European disease history

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