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Previous research of the virus's DNA showed that the disease had appeared 35 thousand years ago. However, French scientists studied a special type of bacterium that causes tuberculosis in Eastern Africa. Specialists draw the conclusion that the "southern" virus can be much older, with other types of bacterium originating from it.
Scientists presume that the TB virus, which originated three million years ago in Eastern Africa, spread on the planet through people's migrations.

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24 posted on 08/23/2005 8:24:48 PM PDT by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com)
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37 posted on 08/24/2005 6:51:22 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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