Wednesday, 31 August 2011

Mass grave is blamed on germs, not Nazis

The remains of one man found in a mass grave in Kassel, Germany. The 18 individuals�Anna Zipp of Gottingen University�and her colleagues studied were all male, and are believed to have been soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars. Genetic analysis found evidence of the bacterium that causes trench fever in three of the men.A mass grave, uncovered during construction at a German university, held the remains of about 60 people, with little evidence of their identities and how they ended up there. Now, almost four years after the discovery, a genetic analysis of bones from the site has revealed clues to a possible killer.��


Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44342976/ns/technology_and_science-science/

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