Seals and sea lions are suspected to have brought tuberculosis to the Americans well before Christopher Columbus first set foot there, said scientists on Wednesday. A new study challenges the theory that Europeans introduced TB to the New World, where it killed millions of indigenous Americans along with other foreign diseases like whooping cough, chicken pox and flu. As many as 20 million people lived in the Americas before Europeans arrived, and up ...Thursday 21 August 2014
TB to Americans Brought by Seals, Not Columbus
Seals and sea lions are suspected to have brought tuberculosis to the Americans well before Christopher Columbus first set foot there, said scientists on Wednesday. A new study challenges the theory that Europeans introduced TB to the New World, where it killed millions of indigenous Americans along with other foreign diseases like whooping cough, chicken pox and flu. As many as 20 million people lived in the Americas before Europeans arrived, and up ...
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