5300 year-old man dies from A. fumigatus infection?

In September 1991 the corpse of a man was found protruding from a glacier 3200 meters above sea level in the Ötzal Alps, Austria. The body was carefully removed and taken to the Department of Forensic Evidence at the University of Innsbruck, where it was identified as prehistoric and moved to the Department of Anatomy (click here for more details) for further examination.

The body is now in the Archaeological Museum of Bolzano, Italy, kept under strictly controlled storage conditions which simulate the glacial conditions the body is thought to have lain in for over 5000 years.

The corpse was dated at between 3350 and 3140 BC and thus lived in the Stone Age.

Researchers named the Stone Age man Ötzi, but he was rapidly dubbed "the iceman" by the media.

He is the oldest and best-preserved natural mummy ever found, so protected by the cold that researchers can determine how he lived, where he came from, what ailed him, what he ate for his last meal, and what ultimately must have killed him.

For warmth during his journey over the Alps the body was well clothed with perfectly preserved hat, shoes and cloak, and he carried a fire-making kit. For food and protection he carried a bow and arrow and a flint-tipped dagger.
The most remarkable tool he was found with was a copper axe - Ötzi lived 1000 years before it was previously thought copper tools of such sophistication were made.
The contents of his intestines have revealed much about what he ate, initially thought to have been bread and berries but also now thought to also contain meat.
Ötzi is also thought to have been carrying a medicine kit containing, ironically considering what may have been his ultimate fate, two mushrooms of a species known to contain antibiotic properties. His body shows puncture marks on the back consistent with the use of acupuncture for the treatment of back and leg pain, leading to the suggestion that people of this age had far more sophisticated knowledge of the body than was previously thought. Ötzi lived 3000 years before and thousands of miles away from where Chinese acupuncture was developed.

A news story in the London Times, May 24th 1995 ran as follows:

So it seems possible that Otzi may have died of pulmonary aspergillosis after being weakened by a previous disease a few months before - his gut was also infested with parasites at the time of his death, further illustrating that he was not in good health.

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