A sip of unpasteurized sheep or goat’s milk may have spelled doom for a medieval Italian man.Play VideoDecapitated Gladiators Found in England? The lives of Roman gladiators were brought more into focus, thanks to the discovery of a possible gladiator graveyard in Britain.Heather Bonney / Museum of LondonA new genetic analysis of bony nodules found in a 700-year-old skeleton from Italy reveal that the man had brucellosis, a bacterial infection caught from livestock, when he died. It’s not clear if the disease killed the man, but he likely would have suffered from symptoms such as chronic fatigue and recurring fevers, according to the researchers who analyzed the bones.
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