Showing posts with label Bernhard Noct Institute for Tropical Medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bernhard Noct Institute for Tropical Medicine. Show all posts

Friday, 25 June 2010

King Tut died from sickle-cell disease, not malaria

King Tutankhamun died from sickle-cell disease, not malaria, say experts. A team from Hamburg's Bernhard Noct Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNI) claim the disease is a far likelier cause of death than the combination of bone disorders and malaria put forward by Egyptian experts earlier this year.
Source:
 The Independent