17th century Variola virus reveals the recent history of Smallpox — “Variola virus genome was reconstructed from a 17th century mummified child… Molecular-clock analyses show that much of virus evolution occurred recently” [Curr Biol., Dec 2016 — free full-text] User isosafrole, in the Public health: In sickness and in health, no person or nation is an island. subreddit, 24 Jan 2018