such as "Introduction", "Conclusion"..etc January 24, 2006 --
Scientists have for many years debated the cause of the Plague
of Athens. Analysis carried out by Manolis Papagrigorakis and
colleagues using DNA collected from teeth from an ancient Greek
burial pit points to typhoid fever as the disease responsible
for this devastating epidemic. The study appears on the online
version of The International Journal of Infectious Diseases
(IJID) published by Elsevier on behalf of the International
Society for Infectious Diseases. plague that began in Ethiopia
and passed through Egypt and Libya to Greece in 430-426 B.C.
changed the balance of power between Athens and Sparta, ending
the Golden Age of Pericles and Athenian dominance in the ancient
world. It is thought that up to one third of the Athenians,
including their charismatic leader, Pericles, perished in the
epidemic. Until now our understanding of this outbreak was based
on the account by the fifth century B.C. Greek historian
Thucydides, who himself was take