Seals May Have Carried Tuberculosis To The New World

The general opinion among scientists who study tuberculosis is that it's an ancient disease that started infecting humans back when we all lived in Africa.

Seals brought TB to Americas - Nature

Ancient bacterial genome sequences collected from human remains in Peru suggest that seals first gave tuberculosis (TB) to humans in the Americas.

Seals 'brought TB to the Americas before Europeans' - BBC News

What is unclear is whether people in America picked up each case of TB from a seal, or whether, once they had contracted the disease, it was ...

Unusual discovery leads to fascinating tuberculosis theory | NSF

The research concludes seals and sea lions likely brought the disease to South America and spread it to people there long before Christopher ...

Seals infected early Americans with tuberculosis | Science | AAAS

The seals likely got the disease from some other unidentified animal in Africa and brought it across the ocean to South America, the researchers ...

The evolutionary history of pathogens causing tuberculosis and ...

We are currently trying to understand how widespread the seal TB became in people in the Americas before European contact. We have new preliminary evidence that ...

Seals May Have Given Ancient Peruvians Tuberculosis Long Before ...

... New World would have acquired tuberculosis after the Spanish conquest in 1492. ... A new study claims that seals carried tuberculosis ...

Study: Seals carried TB to New World – Twin Cities - Pioneer Press

The disease originated less than 6,000 years ago in Africa, they say, and took a surprising route to reach the New World: It was carried across ...

Tuberculosis Got to South America Through … Seals? - The Atlantic

From there, the seal-associated TB might have then spread even farther north to modern-day Mexico, where archaeological evidence of the disease ...

Long before Columbus, seals brought tuberculosis to South America

Evidence from the skeletons of ancient Peruvians shows that seals may have brought tuberculosis across an ocean from Africa.

Seals Brought TB To Americas, Study Says - KFF

“The origin of tuberculosis (TB) in the Americas is no longer a mystery — the seals and sea lions gave it to us. The oldest strains have since ...

Marine mammals blamed for first New World tuberculosis

These pinnipeds may have acquired the disease from an animal host in Africa during the Holocene and then carried the disease to human populations across the ...

New research shows seals and sea lions likely spread tuberculosis ...

New research shows that tuberculosis likely spread from humans in Africa to seals and sea lions that brought the disease to South America and transmitted it to ...

TB arrived at the New World before Europeans - Healio

New archeological evidence suggest that tuberculosis spread to the Americas ... seals and sea lions that brought the disease to South America.

Sea Lions And Seals Likely Spread Tuberculosis To Ancient ... - NPR

By analyzing DNA from 1,000-year-old mummies, scientists have found evidence that sea lions and seals were the first to bring tuberculosis to ...

From seals to humans and beyond: Tuberculosis transmission in ...

From seals to humans and beyond: Tuberculosis transmission in ancient South America. Ancient DNA shows that what likely began as a zoonotic ...

Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of ...

tuberculosis complex caused human disease before contact. The ancient strains are distinct from known human-adapted forms and are most closely ...

Seals And Sealions Facilitated The Spread Of Tuberculosis To The ...

Seals And Sealions Facilitated The Spread Of Tuberculosis To The New World. ... To find out where TB might have come from pre-contact, the ...

Tuberculosis Probably Hitched A Ride To America on Seals

It has long been assumed that tuberculosis (TB) was introduced to the Americas by Europeans when they began their forays across the Atlantic ...

Tuberculosis first came to the Americas by jumping from seals to ...

The origin of tuberculosis (TB) in the Americas is no longer a mystery - the seals and sea lions gave it to us. The oldest strains have since given way to our ...