The Tooth That Changed the History of Scarlet Fever
From Beneath the Lost World · 12:02
Show by Maya Collins
A single loose tooth from a seven-hundred-year-old mummy in Bolivia held the first ancient genome of the scarlet fever bacterium, showing it was already in the Americas long before European contact. Maya follows the tooth from a museum shelf in La Paz into the invisible history of disease.
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