Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found In 500,000-year-old Human; Points To Modern Health Issues

Science Daily ^ | 12-7-2007 | University of Texas at Austin.

[CholeraJoe]

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you that the race-carders like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton aren't screaming for the author's heads. All James Watson, discoverer of DNA had to do was insinuate that there might be a difference in intellect between whites and blacks, and he was lynched in the media and disgraced.

To even vaguely insinuate that there might be an immune difference between dark-skinned peoples and whites is forbidden by the racial police!

[SunkenCiv]

:’) The Matt Ridley book “Genome” has a discussion of some apparent immunities and vulnerabilities which stem (sorry) from various blood types, and those ride along on Chromosome 9. :’)

Deadly Flu Outbreak: Is History Repeating Itself?
[23,000 victims in Madagascar]
Newsmax | Aug. 30, 2002 | Phil Brennan
Posted on 08/30/2002 8:38:05 PM EDT by 2sheep
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/742222/posts

Studies Prove People Of Madagascar Came From Borneo And Africa
Mongabay | 7-10-2005 | MongaBay
Posted on 07/10/2005 11:31:26 AM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1440141/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Twisting The Record On Vitamin D
cancer decisions | December 2, 2007 | Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
Posted on 12/10/2007 12:52:12 AM EST by Coleus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1937245/posts

[who_would_fardels_bear]

So the existence of neanderthals in the past is pure BS? Or that they were different from us is BS? Or if they did exist and were very similar to us, even asking whether or not they had souls and why they were allowed to go extinct is BS?

I don't even know for sure what you mean by BS?

BS = Bible Study, perhaps?

[flynmudd]

No, I mean the stinky stuff that cows leave behind. I don’t believe that humans have been around for 500,000 years period. Carbon dating has it’s faults.

[SunkenCiv]

thanks Blam:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936456/posts?page=2#2

The Antibiotic Vitamin
Science News | 11-10-2006 | Janet Raloff
Posted on 11/10/2006 7:08:52 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1736605/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Researchers Discover Ancient Origins Of Tuberculosis-causing Bacteria
ScienceDaily
Aug. 20, 2005

Researchers have long considered tuberculosis, a bacterial respiratory disease that kills 3 million people each year, a relatively recent human affliction... Most tuberculosis cases are caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its close relatives. However, some tuberculosis patients from East Africa are infected with unusual bacterial strains that form colonies that appear physically different from M. tuberculosis. Using genetic data from the different strains, Vincent and her colleagues discovered that the ancestors of these bacterial strains were also the progenitors of M. tuberculosis. These results suggest that M. tuberculosis and related strains recently emerged from a much more ancient bacterial species than previously thought, possibly as old as 3 million years, Vincent says. "Tuberculosis could thus be much older than the plague, typhoid fever, or malaria, and might have affected early hominids," and its expansion to the rest of the world may have coincided with the waves of human migration out of Africa.

TB was in Turkey 500K years ago.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 12/07/2007. Just a ping message update. Thanks blam.