Scientists analyzing DNA from the 1500-year-old skeleton of a boy excavated recently in Rome, have found indications of malarial infection, and it is conjectured that the fall of the Roman empire in the fifth century may have been connected with an epidemic of that disease.
科學家從一千五百多年前，羅馬古墓的幼童骨骸 DNA 中，發現感染瘧疾的證據，推論第五世紀羅馬帝國的沒落與瘧疾有關。