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Oct. 25, 2025, 11:06 AM EDTBy Freddie ClaytonWhen Napoleon marched into Russia in 1812, he brought with him the largest army Europe had ever seen. When he limped back out, he’d met his match — not in muskets or cannon fire, but in microbes.Researchers who analyzed DNA from the teeth of soldiers who died during the retreat from Moscow say they have identified two diseases that devastated the emperor’s vaunted Grande Armée.Ever since 1812, “people have thought that typhus was the most prevalent disease in the army,” said Nicolás Rascovan, the head of the microbial paleogenomics unit at the Institut Pasteur and an author of the study, published in the journal Current Biology.Using a technique called shotgun sequencing, Rascovan and his team were able to analyze ancient DNA from the dental remains of 13 soldiers found near Vilnius, Lithuania, and identify two “previously undocumented pathogens.”“We confirmed the presence of Salmonella enterica belonging to the Paratyphi C lineage,” he told NBC News, referring to the bacteria responsible for paratyphoid fever, as well as “Borrelia recurrentis, the bacteria responsible for relapsing fever,” which causes episodes of fever.These diseases would have thrived where people “were under very poor sanitary conditions or hygiene,” he added.The findings fit with historical descriptions of the symptoms experienced by soldiers in Napoleon’s army, such as fever and diarrhea, the researchers said in the study.A “reasonable scenario” for the deaths would be a “combination of fatigue, cold, and several diseases, including paratyphoid fever and louse-borne relapsing fever,” they wrote.“While not necessarily fatal, the louse-borne relapsing fever could significantly weaken an already exhausted individual,” they added.Unlike a 2006 study that found traces of the bacteria that cause typhus or trench fever in four individuals among a group of 35, the team found no traces of those diseases.But Rascovan said that while the earlier study was limited by the technology of the time, its results remained valid and, coupled with the new findings, gave a better picture of the conditions that laid waste to Napoleon’s army.“Finding four different pathogens in such a number of individuals, it really shows that there were a high prevalence of infectious diseases of all kinds,” he said.By the time Napoleon’s troops had retreated, an estimated 300,000 men had died. Even an emperor, it seems, can’t outmarch a microbe.Freddie ClaytonFreddie Clayton is a freelance journalist based in London. 
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Oct. 21, 2025, 5:38 PM EDT / Updated Oct. 21, 2025, 6:12 PM EDTBy Scott Wong and Kyle StewartWASHINGTON — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to try to force House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, the Arizona Democrat who won her late father’s seat in a special election nearly one month ago.Johnson, R-La., has said he will seat Grijalva once Senate Democrats agree to reopen the government. But the two parties haven’t been talking for weeks, and there is no indication when the shutdown might end.House Dems march to demand Johnson swear in Grijalva00:56The lawsuit, which Mayes threatened in a letter to Johnson last week, argues that the speaker’s delay is depriving the 813,000 residents living in Arizona’s 7th District of congressional representation. It lists the state of Arizona and Grijalva herself as plaintiffs and the U.S. House, as well as the House clerk and sergeant at arms, as defendants.“Speaker Mike Johnson is actively stripping the people of Arizona of one of their seats in Congress and disenfranchising the voters of Arizona’s seventh Congressional district in the process,” Mayes said in a statement. “By blocking Adelita Grijalva from taking her rightful oath of office, he is subjecting Arizona’s seventh Congressional district to taxation without representation. I will not allow Arizonans to be silenced or treated as second-class citizens in their own democracy.”As he left the Capitol on Tuesday evening, Johnson blasted the Arizona lawsuit as “patently absurd.”Mayes, he said, has “no jurisdiction.”Grijalva and congressional Democrats have been holding news conferences on Capitol Hill, doing TV interviews and staging protests outside Johnson’s office to try to pressure the speaker to relent. But Mayes’ move escalates the standoff and gets the courts involved.House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and other Democrats have argued that Johnson is delaying seating Grijalva because she represents the 218th — and final — signature on a discharge petition needed to force a House vote to compel the Justice Department to release all of its files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.Johnson has repeatedly denied that the delay has anything to do with the Epstein files. The speaker has said he is happy to swear in Grijalva as soon as the government, now on the 21st day of the shutdown, reopens.And Johnson accused Mayes, a Democrat who is running for re-election in 2026, of seeking publicity following a public clash he had with Arizona’s two Democratic senators, Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly, over the Grijalva issue earlier this month.“So, yet another Democrat politician from Arizona is trying to get national publicity. So now it’s the state AG, who’s going to sue me because … Rep.-elect Grijalva is not yet sworn in,” Johnson told reporters Monday.He said he is following what he called the “Pelosi precedent,” noting that then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., took 25 days to administer the oath of office to then-Rep.-elect Julia Letlow, R-La. Letlow won a 2021 special election to fill the seat of her husband, who died of Covid complications days before he was set to be sworn into office. The House was out on recess following her election, amid the pandemic, and she was sworn in the week that it returned to session.“So I will administer the oath to [Grijalva], I hope, on the first day we come back to legislative session. I’m willing and anxious to do that,” Johnson told reporters in the Capitol.Grijalva handily won her special election on Sept. 23, 28 days ago, and just four days after the House voted to pass its short-term government funding bill and left town.Johnson continued: “In the meantime, instead of doing TikTok videos, she should be serving her constituents. She could be taking their calls. She could be directing them, trying to help them through the crisis that the Democrats have created by shutting down the government.”Grijalva is the daughter of former Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., a progressive power broker and former Natural Resources Committee chairman who died in March after serving more than two decades in the House.”There is so much that cannot be done until I am sworn in,” Grijalva said Tuesday at a news conference with Jeffries. “While we’re getting a lot of attention for not being sworn in, I’d rather get the attention for doing my job.”Once she is sworn in, Grijalva is expected to quickly sign the bipartisan discharge petition — led by Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif. — which would allow them to bypass Johnson’s leadership team and force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.For months, the Epstein issue has been a nagging headache for both Johnson and President Donald Trump. Many of the president’s MAGA supporters have called for transparency and the release of all of the documents related to the case. On Tuesday, Johnson pointed out that the House Oversight Committee is investigating the matter and has released more than 43,000 pages of documents from DOJ and the Epstein estate. “The bipartisan House Oversight Committee is already accomplishing what the discharge petition, that gambit, sought — and much more,” Johnson, standing alongside Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said Tuesday. In an interview in the Capitol, Khanna said Johnson should just swear Grijalva in and hold the vote on the Epstein files because the issue is not going away.“They gotta swear in Adelita Grijalva. I don’t know why they’re delaying the inevitable. They’re kind of hoping this story dies and they get it out of the front pages, but then it comes roaring back once we get the votes,” Khanna told NBC News. “I wish we could just swear Adelita Grijalva in and have a vote on the release of the Epstein files.”Democrats are expected to win another vacant House seat in the coming weeks. On Nov. 4, voters will choose someone to fill the vacancy left by the unexpected death in March of Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Texas, who represented a heavily Democratic district.If Democrats prevail in that special election, it would trim the GOP majority in the House to 219-215 and mean Johnson could only lose a single GOP defection on any vote.Scott WongScott Wong is a senior congressional reporter for NBC News. Kyle StewartKyle Stewart is a producer and off-air reporter covering Congress for NBC News, managing coverage of the House.Julie Tsirkin and Gabrielle Khoriaty contributed.
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