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700-year-old mummy reveals bacterium that causes scarlet fever in the Americas before Europeans

Learn how the bacterium for scarlet fever was found in a pre-Colombian mummy from Bolivia, challenging the history of the ...

Bolivian mummy rewrites scarlet fever's past, suggesting killer bacterium circulated centuries before colonization

Researchers have identified the genetic material of scarlet fever while examining a tooth from a naturally mummified skull ...
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Scarlet fever bacterium discovered in pre-Columbian mummy, suggesting disease was present in Americas long before Europeans arrived

An international team of researchers have, for the first time, identified the bacterium behind scarlet fever in a pre-Columbian mummy in Bolivia. By reconstructing the genome of this centuries-old ...
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The bacterium responsible for scarlet fever was not introduced to the Americas by Europeans.

Researchers identified the pathogen’s genetic material while examining a tooth from a naturally mummified skull housed at ...