Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human tuberculosis
'Our results suggest that TB emerged in Africa about 6,000 years ago'
---- 'Bos and her colleagues could extract tuberculosis DNA from three skeletons found in southern Peru and dating back to between the years 700 and 1000.'
tb, nasty critters, disease, travel, OOA, not ebola, ping
Better warn all the ancient Peruvians out there!
So TB didn’t exist when people migrated to the Americas?
Is there any crappy disease that didn’t originate in Africa?
“Ancient Peruvians may have caught the TB bacteria.....during some ceremony.”
“You may now kiss the bride.”
It was lonely there in Ancient Peru.