The face of Zosia the 'vampire' was rebuilt by scientists 400 years after she was buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck out of the fear that she would come back to life.

Swedish scientists have reconstructed the face of a 400-year-old woman buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck due to people during her time thinking she was a vampire ...

Buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck, "Zosia" was never supposed to be able to come back from the dead. Entombed in an unmarked cemetery in Pien, northern Poland ...

An iron sickle was placed around the woman's neck, and there was a padlock around her big toe. According to Poliński, the strange burial was performed because the villagers may have thought that ...

‘I’m Unstoppable’: New gene therapy cures first New Yorker of sickle cell anemia by: Marvin Scott Posted: Mar 13, 2025 / 06:06 PM EDT Updated: Mar 13, 2025 / 06:53 PM EDT ...

The first medical paper about a blood sample showing "sickle-shaped and crescent-shaped" red blood cells was published in 1910. But it wasn't recognized as a disease until 1922 when Verne Mason, a ...

There are several types of SCD, and sickle cell anemia is usually the most severe form of the condition. The specific type of SCD a person has will depend on the genes they inherit from their ...

These sickle-shaped cells can block blood flow, leading to various complications, such as acute chest syndrome (ACS), a severe condition that can occur in people with sickle cell anemia and cause ...

Swedish scientists have reconstructed the face of a 400-year-old woman buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck because people in her time believed she was a vampire.