One mystery remains unsolved for many years, but the cause and manner of death of Alexander the Great. Occasionally implicated his companions, his personal physician, various diseases, which at that time literally mowed people: such as typhoid and influenza and spilled tons of ink and conspiracies dolioplokies erected against him. This time the death of Alexander the Great at the age of 32 years entered the microscope not historical but by scientists. Specifically Americans Epidemiologists argue that the death of the great commander due to encephalitis RESULTS West Nile virus previously unknown but widely spread today worldwide. Alexander the Great died on June 10, 323 BC Babylon, near present-day Baghdad. The researchers relied on a passage of Plutarch, which states that the great leader saw a few weeks before his death a flock of ravens sick. The scientists suspected that the birds were infected iepivevaiothike with a modern software to diagnose infectious diseases. The West Nile virus, most popular in Africa, western Asia and the Middle East, challenging every year hundreds of birds and other animals and is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes. Starting from these facts by John Marr of the University of Virginia in Richmond and Charles Calisher of Colorado State University in Collins, after thorough investigations in the fragments of the great historian, describing the incident happened when Alexander arrived outside the walls Babylon. Then the Great Army Commander saw a flock of crows picking at each other and fall dead to the ground. This confirmed the suspicions of epidemiologists that his death finally came from complications of West Nile virus. It is worth noting here that the Ravens belong to a family of birds particularly susceptible to West Nile virus. The researchers tested the idea of entering the symptoms of Alexander the Great (rash difficulty breathing fever) and the appearance of ravens in a diagnostic program called GIDEON (Global Network for Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology). However, both experts state that until recently the West Nile fever was not considered by previous authors as a cause of death of Alexander, since it had not yet identified in the laboratory. Noteworthy is that the West Nile virus was first isolated from a febrile patient in Uganda in 1937. Several years later in 1999, the West Nile virus appeared in the United States affecting 4,156 people. During the epidemic of 2000 in Israel, encephalitis occurred in nearly 59% of 417 human cases. Epidemiologists Americans firmly believe that Alexander the Great died in late spring to Babylon after an illness of two weeks the symptoms of which suggest encephalitis West Nile virus. Dr. Marr is director of the Office of Epidemiology in Virginia. He has written numerous articles on the main possible causes of the 10 plagues of Egypt and the mysterious epidemic before the death of the last Inca emperor, Hayna Capac. Dr. Calisher is professor of microbiology at the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases Colorado State University.T s research interests include the epidemiology of the disease, but mosquitoes and the viruses of rodents transmitted to humans. iatropedia.gr Translation by google translate.
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