Monday, September 2, 2013

TB Followed Humans Out of Africa Nearly 70,000 Years Ago

Scientists say that one of the largest genetic investigations into the microbe which causes TB shows the germ followed early humans out of Africa at least 70,000 years ago. In a parallel probe, investigators also said they had identified 39 new genes that drive dangerous drug resistance in this germ, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB is one of the deadliest diseases in the medical lexicon. Untreated, it kills roughly half the people it infects. ...

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