Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Analysis of viral DNA from human remains suggests that the transatlantic slave trade may have introduced new pathogens that contributed to the devastating disease outbreaks in colonial Mexico.
