Aug 18
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart appears to have died from strep throat.
"Our findings suggest that Mozart fell victim to an epidemic of strep throat infection that was contracted by many Viennese people in Mozart’s month of death, and that Mozart was one of several persons in that epidemic that developed a deadly kidney complication," researcher Richard Zegers, of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, told Reuters Health.
Strep hospitalizes a few thousand people a year in England. And it can kill if let go or if it mestatizes into nercotizing fasciitis or streptoccal toxic shock – these kill a few thousand people a year in the US.
Anyway, we are glad to have had Mozart for his 35 years.