Abandoned Bones Suggest TB Wiped Out Leprosy In Battle Of Killer Diseases
I don't know why I find this so fascinating. It is ironic, I guess, that one disease wiped out another. Now you can say that's there's one good thing about TB. Every cloud has a silver lining?Abandoned Bones Suggest TB Wiped Out Leprosy In Battle Of Killer Diseases
posted by Prospector @ 9:17 AM
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have you found any other literature to support this
The original source:
Donoghue, H. D., A. Marcsik, C. Matheson, K. Vernon, E. Nuorala, J. E. Molto, C. L. Greenblatt, and M. Spigelman. 2004. Co-infection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae in human archaeological samples - a possible explanation for the historical decline
of leprosy. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B in press. (e-publication due February 9 2005)
I have been corresponding with Professor Marcsik and it's possible that we are related.
"Abandoned Bones Suggest TB Wiped Out Leprosy In Battle Of Killer Diseases"
That is an interesting notion, but how about another- Cowpox virus vaccinations that prevent smallpox? Maybe the TB killed them before the leprosy could.
Monte Haun
mchaun@hotmail.com
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