Health

Almost 340 years later: Israeli researcher uncovers what the Swedish queen died from

Hundreds of years after the death of Christina, the Swedish queen who abdicated the throne and was buried in the Vatican, researchers including Professor Zaid Abbasi from the Technion propose a solution to the mystery: undiagnosed diabetes left a chronic wound in her leg, the infection spread and likely led to a fatal blood poisoning. The clues were hidden in an ancient autopsy report that was discovered in a private archive in Vienna after centuries.