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Lice 'undermined Napoleon's army'
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Hard genetic evidence that lice-borne disease played a key role in Napoleon's disastrous retreat through Russia in 1812 has been produced by researchers.
Experts analysed dental pulp extracted from the teeth of soldiers who died during the campaign.
They found lice-borne versions of typhus and trench fever ran rampant among the French Grand Army.
The study, by the Université de la Méditerranée in Marseille, is published by the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
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