January 25, 2018
This week, dozens of media outlets declared that scientists had solved the mystery of what wiped out the Aztecs. Traces of a pathogen that can cause a typhoid-like enteric fever have been found in skeletons from a cemetery linked to the catastrophic epidemics of 1545-50, which killed millions of indigenous people in 16th-century Mexico.
Source: The Conversation
https://theconversation.com/have-scientists-really-found-the-germ-responsible-for-killing-15m-aztecs-90263