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Gavin Grey: Europe Correspondent gives an update on the health of Pope Francis · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Devin Gray out of the UK. Good morning Devin either
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Pope Brownsis not well. Five days now in hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and just been announced that every engagement right through
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  Speaker 2: until the weekend, including the weekend, has been canceled. The
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  Speaker 2: eighty eight year old was admitted into Rome's Jamelli Hospital
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  Speaker 2: on Friday to undergo treatment and tests for bronchitis. We're
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  Speaker 2: now being told he's got a polymicrobial infection of his
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  Speaker 2: respiratory tract and what that basically means is he's had
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  Speaker 2: to now have a change in the treatment that he
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  Speaker 2: was originally prescribed. He's described as in a stable condition.
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  Speaker 2: He does not have a fever, but nevertheless, this course
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  Speaker 2: is very worrying. He has a history of illness, particularly
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  Speaker 2: to do with his lungs, including just at the age
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  Speaker 2: of twenty one he actually had part of one of
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  Speaker 2: his lungs removed, having suffered from health issues for many years,
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  Speaker 2: and in March of twenty twenty three he spent three
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  Speaker 2: nights in hospital with bronchitis, and in June that year
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  Speaker 2: underwent a three hour operation to repair an abdominal hernia.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm afraid some bad news. Plenty of well wishers
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  Speaker 2: though at Saint Peter's Basilica. Plenty of weld wishes throughout
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  Speaker 2: the Vatican. But yeah, pretty worrying days for the Pope.
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  Speaker 1: Very unfortunate timing because this is the Holy Year, the anniversary,
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  Speaker 1: the big old celebrations, and he's missing out and he
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  Speaker 1: will be missed. And finally, your textpayer's money has been
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  Speaker 1: spent on researchers figuring out what a mummy smells like.
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  Speaker 1: And when I say mummy, I mean an Egyptian mummy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, fascinating this Apparently when you open up one of
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  Speaker 2: these mummies, even five thousand years on, they actually smelled
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  Speaker 2: quite nice, I believe it or not a pleasant smell
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  Speaker 2: according to scientists, and that is due to the use
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  Speaker 2: of resins and oils like pine cedar and juniper. So
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  Speaker 2: this was a team from University College London looking at
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  Speaker 2: basically collaborating and conservators and curators at the Egyptian Museum
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  Speaker 2: in I wrote they had a look at nine mummified
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  Speaker 2: bodies and the smell has always been something that has
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  Speaker 2: fascinated research because as I mentioned, it's actually not unpleasant.
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  Speaker 2: It is not the smell of decay, and smell is
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  Speaker 2: a very key consideration for ancient Egyptians, it would appear,
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  Speaker 2: particularly when it came to the mummification process. Even though
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  Speaker 2: five thousand years on, of course things have changed, but
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  Speaker 2: it was said that the smells that and the oils
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  Speaker 2: that we used are really, really rather pleasant. This seems
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  Speaker 2: to be a bizarre thing to investigate and research, but
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  Speaker 2: nevertheless really interesting that something all those years on can
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  Speaker 2: actually smell quite good.
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