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Announced the findings in a research news release
Sheeppox has been infecting flocks for at least 3,700 years. Researchers have now pulled its DNA out of an unlikely archive: the animal skins that medieval scribes scraped, soaked and bound into books, including the 1,000-year-old York Gospels.
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