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To: carriage_hill

More difficult to do without preserved soft tissues.
Maybe the teeth, marrow, or growth plates on the femur could have detectable traces of any contagion.
But mostly any disease would have to be inferred from changes to the bones themselves as in the case of syphilis causing deformations.
Hoping the tech improves enough to make it vastly easier.


24 posted on 12/09/2020 7:59:49 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Darksheare

Teeth are the #1 carrier of ancient DNA and contagion, but the 1918 Spanish Flu samples had lots of available sample: skin, bone, teeth etc.


25 posted on 12/09/2020 8:12:59 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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