Bonito artículo en científicos americanos acerca de la investigación arqueológica de ADN para determinar muy antiguas epidemias. En este caso son cuatro. Pero vemos que los modelos son más o menos siempre similares y que ya cargamos con ellos. También se valora por encima la repercusión histórica de dichas grandes pestes
Today societies know much more about pathogens and how to fight them than did people 500 or 5,000 years ago. But our current struggles with COVID-19 show that our vulnerabilities to novel diseases have not changed: they often jump to humans from other species, spread via global trade and travel, and become exacerbated by crowding, poverty and malnourishment. The aDNA research reminds us of those enduring facts and shows that some of the biggest events in history were not just defined by powerful figures such as Emperor Justinian I or conquistador Hernán Cortés. They were also profoundly shaped by the microbes their empires helped to spread
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