researchers have isolated bacterial dna of several strains of the disease from the bodies of mummies in the crypt of a church in the city of vác in hungary .
they found 14 different strains of tb bacteria that had infected eight of the bodies in the tomb and traced them all back to a single source .
mummified remains of 28-year-old terézia hausmann found in the 18th century crypt of the dominican church in vác , hungary , were among those found to have been infected with tuberculosis .