Tuberculosis May Have Been In The Americas For Thousands Of Years
<p>Archaeological evidence reveals that Indigenous Peoples have resided in the Andes Mountains for more than 12,000 years, in regions including modern-day Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. As you might expect, these populations show physiological adaptations to the cold temperatures, low oxygen concentrations and intense ultraviolet radiation that they experienced at high altitudes. Now, a new study by an international team of researchers suggests that Indigenous populations also adapted to tuberculosis (TB) — thousands of years before Europeans arrived. But the prevalence of this bacterial pathogen and its powerful effects upon the communities living throughout the Andes before European contact was poorly known and thus, is quite surprising.</p>
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