A French genetics study comparing strains of leprosy-causing bacteria indicate that the disease may have begun in East Africa, not India as previously thought, and then spread to the other continents through European colonialism and the slave trade.
Slavery was rampant throughout the entire middle east 3,000 years ago. How did European colonialism spread it to there from East Africa?
8 posted on 05/12/2005 5:48:29 PM PDT by DallasMike