Disease tolerance: Skeletons reveal humans evolved to fight pathogens

(Flinders University) As Covid-19 impacts lives around the world- a new skeleton study is reconstructing ancient pandemics to assess human's evolutionary ability to fight off leprosy, tuberculosis and treponematoses with help from declining rates of transmission when the germs became widespread.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news