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fromenglish.elpais.com
3 months ago

Oldest known bacterial DNA found in a mammoth that lived more than a million years ago

Ancient DNA from mammoth remains reveals preserved oral and internal bacteria, including pathogen relatives that could have caused lethal infections in mammoths and modern elephants.
fromNature
5 months ago

The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia - Nature

Pathogens have been a constant threat to human health throughout our evolutionary history. Infectious diseases are estimated to have been responsible for more than half of all children deaths before age 15.
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