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A 16th-century cemetery in Peru holds the remains of two toddlers whose skeletons still show the devastating impact of smallpox in the early-colonial period.
The rare find may hold key information about the earliest infectious diseases related to European colonization.
Researchers identified numerous destructive lesions, almost like moth holes, in the joints of the kids' shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles.
These are the earliest cases of osteomyelitis variolosa identified in South America .
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