@securityonline.bsky.socialDiscover how ancient sheep pox genomes hidden in medieval parchment and Bronze Age teeth reveal the 3,700-year evolutionary history of this livestock virus.
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@microbesinfo.bsky.social📜🦠#DNA recovered from medieval parchment has helped reconstruct the 3,500-year history of #Sheeppox, showing how old manuscripts can preserve #genetic records of #livestock #diseases.
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Medieval manuscripts are “biological time capsules” for deadly sheeppox virus
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Multiple pages, often from the same manuscript, were found to contain DNA from the sheeppox pathogen, which means infected animals were likely ...