Oldest Evidence Of Leprosy Found In India

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 20:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Anthropologists have recently reported on the analysis of a 4000-year-old skeleton from India bearing evidence of leprosy. This skeleton represents both the earliest archaeological evidence for human infection with Mycobacterium leprae in the world and the first evidence for the disease in prehistoric India.

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