Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have genetically analyzed the remains of former soldiers who retreated from Russia in 1812. They detected two pathogens, those responsible for paratyphoid fever ...
In 2017, more than half the cases of typhoid fever worldwide were projected to have occurred in India. In the absence of contemporary population-based data, it is unclear whether declining trends of ...
In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte mobilized an army of almost half a million soldiers to invade the territory controlled by the Russian Empire. By fall, when the emperor did not ...
The University of Oxford in collaboration with the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSoM) has begun recruiting for a Phase I/II trial of a new paratyphoid vaccine in human volunteers in ...
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Hidden Microbes of 1812: DNA Points to Paratyphoid and Relapsing Fever in Napoleon’s Grande Armée
A new preprint on bioRxiv reexamined the disease profile of Napoleon’s retreating army in 1812. Researchers extracted ancient DNA from teeth of thirteen soldiers recovered from a Vilnius mass grave ...
The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...
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