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Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
Scientists analyzing medieval sheep and goat manuscripts discovered that illuminated texts from the 14th-17th centuries contained viable fragments of sheeppox virus, positioning historical documents as unexpected reservoirs of pathogen genetic material.
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