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Tuberculosis
Research reports on tuberculosis from T. Suzuki and colleagues provide new insights
August 5th, 2008
"Tuberculosis has been recognized in Japan and Korea for more than 500 years in historical medical documents. However, the origin and early existence of tuberculosis is poorly understood in these regions," scientists writing in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology report. "Very recently, skeletal evidence for tuberculosis from the Bronze Age (or Aneolithic) period was reported from Japan and Korea. This article describes a possible case of spinal tuberculosis from an archeological site in Korea, which was dated to the first century BC. This date corresponds to the Aneolithic (Yayoi) period in Japan. Skeletal evidence for tuberculosis during the Bronze...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-08-05)
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