{"id":19412,"date":"2025-06-02T11:44:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=19412"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:44:48","slug":"ancient-dna-reveals-leprosy-was-in-america-centuries-before-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=19412","title":{"rendered":"Ancient DNA Reveals Leprosy Was in America Centuries Before Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/ancient-dna-reveals-leprosy-was-in-america-centuries-before-columbus\/\" title=\"Ancient DNA Reveals Leprosy Was in America Centuries Before Columbus\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Archaeological-Tooth-From-Human-Remains-in-South-America-777x347.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Archaeological Tooth From Human Remains in South America\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Archaeological-Tooth-From-Human-Remains-in-South-America-777x347.jpg 777w, https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Archaeological-Tooth-From-Human-Remains-in-South-America-400x179.jpg 400w, https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Archaeological-Tooth-From-Human-Remains-in-South-America-768x343.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Archaeological-Tooth-From-Human-Remains-in-South-America-1536x686.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Archaeological-Tooth-From-Human-Remains-in-South-America-2048x915.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Archaeological-Tooth-From-Human-Remains-in-South-America-150x67.jpg 150w, https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Archaeological-Tooth-From-Human-Remains-in-South-America-450x201.jpg 450w, https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Archaeological-Tooth-From-Human-Remains-in-South-America-1200x536.jpg 1200w\" \/><\/a>A brand new research reveals that leprosy existed in America lengthy earlier than the arrival of Europeans, shedding gentle on the historical past of a long-neglected pathogen. Lengthy thought of a illness dropped at the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may very well have a a lot older historical past on the American continent. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, and [&#8230;]<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/ancient-dna-reveals-leprosy-was-in-america-centuries-before-columbus\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brand new research reveals that leprosy existed in America lengthy earlier than the arrival of Europeans, shedding gentle on the historical past of a long-neglected pathogen. Lengthy thought of a illness dropped at the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may very well have a a lot older historical past on the American continent. Scientists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2353,1851,13301,13302,1856,13300,544],"class_list":["post-19412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-america","tag-ancient","tag-centuries","tag-columbus","tag-dna","tag-leprosy","tag-reveals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}