A team of scientific sleuths claims that malaria and a degenerative bone condition, not human assassins, killed King Tutankhamen, the boy pharaoh who died at age 19 around 1324 B.C., according to a study published in this weekâ??s issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
….It turns out that nobody at UW Madison was part of the international team of medical scientists and anthropologists lead by the charismatic Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Court of Antiquities in Cairo. But there is another local connection.
Dr. Laura Knoll, an associate professor of medical microbiology and immunology at UW Madison, is working on an idea for a vaccine for malaria. It involves cat litter, of all things.