Earliest confirmed TB case found (9,000 years)

BBC ^ | 10/15/08 | staff

[Rebelbase]

The 9,000-year-old remains of a mother and her baby discovered off the coast of Israel provide the earliest concrete evidence of human TB, say researchers.

The bones were excavated from Alit-Yam, an ancient Neolithic village near Haifa, which has been submerged in the Mediterranean for thousands of years.

[Rebelbase]

Burial site now covered by the Med. Sea.

Staggering implications here that national health care could have prevented this and had ancient man listened to their Algorian priests the sea level would have never risen, covering the grave.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Staggering.

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Are they certain of the diagnosis?

TB or not TB?

[uglybiker]

G³ Ping!

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[CholeraJoe]

Nully, they ran DNA on the redbugs and they matched TB. We call them that because they stain red in an acid-fast stain. Only TB, leprosy and other related organisms are acid-fast.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!