What made Beethoven sick? DNA from his hair offers clues

This photo provided by researchers in March 2023, shows the Stumpff Lock, from composer Ludwig van Beethoven, in a laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany. Hundreds of years after Beethoven's death, researchers have pulled DNA from strands of his hair — and found clues about what killed him, according to a study published Wednesday March 22, 2023.

NEW YORK — They weren’t able to crack the case of the German composer’s deafness or severe stomach ailments. But they did find a genetic risk for liver disease, plus a liver-damaging hepatitis B infection in the last months of his life. These factors, along with his chronic drinking, were probably enough to cause the liver failure that is widely believed to have killed him, according to a

Can you say that a little louder... I'm deaf 🙉

That’s what’s wrong with this world! Let the dead rest! Geez!

Why

He was trans as everyone already know. That's why he wore a wig and bitched and moaned all the time.

Was it his dope beats and fresh rhythms?

Leave him be. His gift to the world is enough.

_Europe He must have superb health insurance. Mine wound even pay vor a blood test for B12 deficiency.

And to track his lineage who, for all the right reasons, may have looked in to their ancestry. But for all the weird and wrong reasons, policing wants to know everything about everyone.

Investigating his liver health is the safe option. WHY AREN’T THEY IN A BUNKER WITH A GRAND PIANO TRYING TO BUILD ANOTHER BEETHOVEN? 😱

This is the kinda shit you'd never see in the pre-internet days - '50 people gathering in protest' is not a story. However, the Associated Press decides to make it one, and the folks yahoonews have no issue propagating it on their front page.

Roll over Beethoven taken a bit too seriously…let the man be

How great is that? 😊

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