‘This Is Very Strange’: Ancient Smallpox May Have Been Less Deadly
5 news sources are covering this Health story right now — Newsylist is tracking how fast it spreads.
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The story so far
"‘This Is Very Strange’: Ancient Smallpox May Have Been Less Deadly" is generating significant coverage in the Health category, with 5 articles from 5 distinct sources tracked by Newsylist so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include Phys.org, New Scientist, AP News and Reuters. Newsylist measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Who reported it (7)
- Telltale DNA: First direct evidence found that the Spanish brought smallpox to the Inca CIDRAP · 4h ago
- 500-year-old Inca mummies prove that European colonists brought devastating smallpox to the Americas Live Science · 4h ago
- Ancient smallpox genomes reveal how European colonization brought the disease to the Americas Phys.org · 4h ago
- Smallpox DNA in ancient Inca mummies shows virus came from Europe New Scientist · 4h ago
- Ancient mummy DNA provides scientific evidence that colonization brought smallpox to the Americas AP News · 4h ago
- Smallpox DNA is recovered from Spanish conquest-era Chilean mummies Reuters · 4h ago
- ‘This Is Very Strange’: Ancient Smallpox May Have Been Less Deadly The New York Times · 4h ago broke it first
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