Poor Neanderthals...
Apr. 13th, 2016 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Our human ancestors infected Neanderthals with herpes, tuberculosis, tapeworm
Herpes is forever — and has been for a long, long time.
Humans migrating out of Africa may have spread the genital herpes virus, as well as tuberculosis, tapeworm and other diseases, to Neanderthals in Europe and Asia more than 50,000 years ago.
Herpes is forever — and has been for a long, long time.
Humans migrating out of Africa may have spread the genital herpes virus, as well as tuberculosis, tapeworm and other diseases, to Neanderthals in Europe and Asia more than 50,000 years ago.