August 18, 2009

Strep throat may have killed Mozart: study - Yahoo! News

Strep throat may have killed Mozart: study - Yahoo! News: "The death of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 35 may have been caused by complications stemming from strep throat, according to a Dutch study published on Monday. Since the composer's death in 1791, there have been various theories about the cause of his untimely end, from intentional poisoning, to rheumatic fever, to trichinosis, a parasitic disease caused by eating raw or undercooked pork."