Mummified bishop rewrites the history of tuberculosis
A genetic study of small calcifications found in the lungs of the Lund 17th century bishop Peder Winstrup shows that tuberculosis is no older than about 6 000 years, as opposed to 70 000 years old as previously thought. The extremely well-preserved genome from the tuberculosis bacterium indicates that humankind was not affected by tuberculosis before the transition into agriculture. Tuberculosis i
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mummified-bishop-rewrites-history-tuberculosis - 2025-10-11