The death of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 35 may have been caused bycomplicationscomplicationsstemming from strep throat, according to a Dutch study published onMonday. Sincethe composers death in 1791, there have been varioustheories about the cause of his untimelyuntimelyend,from intentional poisoning, to rheumatic fever, to trichinosis, aparasitic disease caused by eatingraw or undercooked pork.Onhis death certificate it was officially recorded that the cause ofdeath was hitziges Frieselfieber,or heated miliary fever, referringto a rash that looks like millet seeds.Butresearchers from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands saidstudies on his death havegenerally been based on less-than-reliableevidence, like accounts from people who witnessedMozarts final days,written decades after his death.Theirnew study, reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine, was based oninformation from-official death registers for Vienna in the winter of1791 that places Mozarts death in a widercontext. He died in Vienna.Our findings suggest that Mozart fellfell victimvictim totoan epidemic of strep throat infection that wascontracted by manyViennese people in Mozarts month of death, and that Mozart was oneofseveral persons in that epidemic that developed a deadly kidneycomplication, researcherRichard Zegers, of the University ofAmsterdam in the Netherlands, told the reporters.Zegersand his colleagues said this minor epidemic of step throat, orstreptococcal pharyngitis,may have begun in the citys militaryhospital.According to witness accounts, Mozart fell ill with an inflammatoryinflammatory fever, which is consistentwith strep throat, Zegers and his colleagues wrote in their report.The composer, who wrote more than 600 works during his life, eventually developed severeswellingswelling, malaisemalaise, back pain and a rash, consistent with a strep infection leading to kidneyinflammation known as glomerulonephritis.Zegerssaid it was also possible that Mozart had scarlet fever, which, likestrep throat, can becaused by infection with streptococcal bacteria,but this was less likely because witnesses saidMozart developed a rashnear the end of his illness and with scarlet fever, the rash appearsearlyearlyonon.著名作曲家沃尔夫冈阿玛迪乌斯莫扎特于 35 岁去世。
本周一公布的一项荷兰研究显示，他可能死于由脓毒性咽喉炎引起的并发症自从这位作曲家于1791 年去世后，有关他英年早逝的原因众说纷纭，如遭人投毒、风湿热以及因生吃或未煮熟猪肉而导致的寄生虫病等根据莫扎特死亡证明上的官方记录，他死于“急性粟粒热”，即一种粟粒状的皮疹但荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学的研究人员称， 此前支持莫扎特死因研究的证据大多比较牵强， 比如陪伴莫扎特度过最后日子的一些人的描述，这是在他逝世几十年后记录下来的这项在内科医学年鉴上发表的最新研究成果主要基于1791 年冬季维也纳官方死亡登记簿上的信息，这将莫扎特之死置于一个更大的背景下进行研究莫扎特在维也纳逝世荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学的研究人员理查德 席格斯在接受记者采访时说：“我们的研究成果表明， 莫扎特当时感染了流行性脓毒咽喉炎， 在莫扎特去世当月， 维也纳有很多人得了这种病，有几人死于其引发的一种致命的肾脏并发症，莫扎特就是其中之一席格斯及其同事称，这次脓毒性咽喉炎（或称为链球菌咽喉炎）的 “小规模流行”可能起源于该市的军队医院席格斯和同事在研究报告中写道，根据目击者的描述，莫扎特患病时伴有 “炎症性高烧”，这与脓毒性喉炎的症状相符莫扎特的病症最终发展为严重水肿，并伴有“酸痛乏力”，背部疼痛以及皮疹， 这与链球菌感染的症状相符， 而正是这一感染引发了一种被称为“肾小球肾炎”的肾部炎症。
莫扎特一生共创作了六百多部作品席格斯称，莫扎特也可能是患上了猩红热 猩红热和脓毒性咽喉炎一样， 也可能由链球菌感染引发 但这种可能性较小， 因为目击者称莫扎特在最后阶段患上了皮疹， 但如果是猩红热，皮疹一般出现于早期Vocabulary:Vocabulary:complicationcomplication：a concurrent disease, accident, or adverse reaction that aggravates the originaldisease.（并发症）-untimely:untimely:occurring too soon; premature（ 过早地出现的；untimely death 夭折）fall victim to:fall victim to:成为的牺牲品inflammatoryinflammatory：accompanied by or tending to cause inflammation（发炎的，炎症性的）swellingswelling：an abnormal enlargement or protuberance, as that resulting from edema. （肿胀，水肿）malaisemalaise：a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of adisease.（不舒服，乏力）early on:early on: 在早期-。