Malaria is at least 5,500 years old, the study found and might even be much older, the researchers say. It actually seems that we have to go quite further back in time, maybe 10,000 years.
For this study, researchers gathered slivers of ancient human bones from archaeologists, museums, and their excavations globally, finding preserved traces of malaria parasites for the first time.
Europeans introduced Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum to the Americas. Plasmodium falciparum spread through the slave trade, affecting many peoples in the region.
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