A DNA study finds that the disease did not evolve, but that Europeans developed mutations that made them resistant to it.
Leprosy has plagued humans for thousands of years, but a new genetic analysis of the pathogen that causes the disfiguring disease has come to the surprising conclusion that its DNA is essentially unchanged since medieval times.
via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/Midxri6mRVg/la-sci-leprosy-20130622,0,2140796.story
Leprosy has plagued humans for thousands of years, but a new genetic analysis of the pathogen that causes the disfiguring disease has come to the surprising conclusion that its DNA is essentially unchanged since medieval times.
via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/Midxri6mRVg/la-sci-leprosy-20130622,0,2140796.story
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