Forager and farmer evolutionary adaptations to malaria evidenced by 7000 years of thalassemia in Southeast Asia
Melandri Vlok, Hallie R. Buckley, Justyna J. Miszkiewicz, Meg M. Walker, Kate Domett, Anna Willis, Hiep H. Trinh, Tran T. Minh, Mai Huong T. Nguyen, Lan Cuong Nguyen, Hirofumi Matsumura, Tianyi Wang, Huu T. Nghia & Marc F. Oxenham
Scientific Reports volume 11, Article number: 5677 (2021)
HCQ is a cure for malaria. It’s been used for over 7 decades.
It is currently one of the top 100 most prescribed drugs in the world.
Has anyone of these brilliant government scientists thought to do a database search, to find out if any of them caught COVID...?
People 7000 years ago should have worn masks. Then the mosquitoes would have stayed away.
I have thalassemia minor. My blood work up is nasty looking.
Schistocyte,Ovalocyte,Microcyte,Dacryocyte etc
Getting physicians to understand how thalassemia can have an effect on all kinds of things is a mind numbing and frustrating experience.
It is not well understood in the US.
Understood better in Italy.
Since they reportedly found substances useful to control the symptoms of malaria with Tut I think it may have been a bit much to say “While malaria is invisible in the archaeological record”.
Given all the looted tombs how much other archaeological evidence of malaria striking the powerful in Egypt was lost? And therefore evidence for it affecting others?
You mean, white men didn’t deliberately bring it to the New World, after all? /s
Mans ability to understand chemistry and apply it has allowed the species to flourish and stall the inevitable.
Thank you, SC, for your posts. They are of very high quality and serve as a breath of fresh air in today’s WOKE era.
The older I get, the more I appreciate them. Bravo!
Human remains dating back 14,000 years have been found in Alaska that show evidence of tuberculosis. Many diseases have been infesting humans for a LONG time.
Umm, malaria’s a pretty big threat in Africa, and there aren’t a whole lot of farmers on that continent.