I am Professor of History of Medicine , of Paleopathology and Funerary Archaeology. Discoveries: in 1986, smallpox virus in mummy; in 1989, syphilitic treponemes in mummy; in 1992, Trypanosoma cruzi in pre-Columbian mummy; in 1996, K-ras mutation in carcinoma of a king of Naples; in 2003, Human Papilloma Virus in mummy; in 2004, digitalis poisoning in the mummy of Cangrande della Scala (1291-1329); in 2010, Plasmodium falciparum and Leishmania sp. in the Medici Grand Dukes of Florence.
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