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Posted on 04/23/2026 11:50:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to a statement released by the Eurac Research Institute for Mummy Studies, genetic material from Streptococcus pyogenes, the bacterium that causes throat infections, scarlet fever, and toxic shock syndrome, has been detected in a 700-year-old tooth in the collection of Bolivia's National Museum of Archaeology. It had been previously thought that the bacterium arrived in South America with Europeans. "We weren't looking for this pathogen specifically," said Frank Maizner of the Eurac Research Institute for Mummy Studies. The tooth came from the skull of a young man who lived between A.D. 1100 and 1450 in the arid Bolivian highlands. His body was likely recovered from a chullpa, a burial tower on the Bolivian Altiplano. "The DNA's excellent preservation enabled us to reconstruct a nearly complete genome, yielding a wealth of information and demonstrating, for example, that the bacterium was already capable of causing disease: the ancient strain carried many—though not all—of the pathogenic genes found in modern Streptococcus pyogenes strains," explained biochemist Guido Valverde. A search of available ancient DNA data revealed that Streptococcus pyogenes has also been detected in 35 DNA samples taken from Europeans who lived about 4,000 years ago and in a population of African gorillas that lived about 200 years ago. To read about finds from chullpas in southern Peru, go to "Dignity of the Dead."
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Tooth of a young man preserving the scarlet fever bacteriumEurac Research/JG Estellano
One of these days...the world will get infected with some-thing that almost caused the end of the human race. Stop digging up stuff...
That’s why toothpaste tubes have “And see your dentist twice every 700 years.”
When I was in San Diego in the Navy, I ended up with Scarletina, aka Scarlet Fever.
I had it back as a kid. Still remember it.
I do not recall his visit or the shot that he gave me. (Probably penicillin.) I slept for most of 3 days and do remember feeling pretty bad the time I was awake.
wow. What were your symptoms? What was it like?
This was back in 1990... so, almost a lifetime ago.
Basically, a red tint over my chest and torso, very itchy, slight fever.
Sore throat, coated tongue, but that’s really about it. Or at least, what I can remember now.
I went to sick call at NAB, they diagnosed it, and gave me some medicine to take, and put me on limdu (limited duty), so I was basically on barracks watch for a week.
Biological note:
This is a distinct and more severe bacteria
than the one that causes Scarlet Pimpernel Fever,
which can lead to losing your entire head instead of
just your tooth.
🙂😊😁😀😃😆😅😂🤣
I managed to miss scarlet fever, but my best friend of the time (and neighbor, which means, better part of a mile from here out in The Boonies) had it and was a little off kilter for around a month. I wasn't allowed contact with him during the interval.
wow thx! I’ve never had any experience with it
Yeah, I was on limdu for a week, but was weak (physically) for about a month as well.
If it was untreated, it could have left me sterile. (I later on had 4 kids, 3 in 3 years! So, definiately NOT the case - LOL).
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