Ep 80 Dysentery loves a disaster
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Is It From Different Toxins?
If we want to know the prevalence of things like intestinal pathagins and parasites in ancient human populations, we can't really use skeletal remains. We have to turn to coprylites or soil samples taken from burial areas around where the intestines would have posed solect the pelvic area. When it comes to dysentery, though, we're still pretty limited, because dysentery is diarrhoea, and only well formed stools can be preserved as copperlights neya. There is some paleo parisit logical evidence of entimebahistolitica infection in humans. The sist of histalytica don't preserve particularly well, and only do so under
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