Earliest known bacterial infection found

Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 12:56 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The bones of an ancient hominin may hold evidence of the earliest known bacterial infection, according to a team of international researchers who diagnosed the skeleton with a disease called brucellosis.

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