By: Cassidy Delamarter , University Communications and Marketing Italian officials have provided an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the University of South Florida access to the remains of individuals who died from the Black Death, a plague that killed millions of people in the 13th century, to help determine the effectiveness of quarantines. The team from the USF Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment is extracting DNA from the teeth of 900 skeletons excavated from the Old Lazzaretto, an island off the coast of Italy where officials built the world's first isolation hospital in 1423.

https://www.miragenews.com/centuries-old-teeth-suggest-effectiveness-of-1044798/

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