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Oldest Bacterial Infection Found

Galvasean · 2009-08-25 11:54:08

Bones from a roughly 2 million year old human relative appear to show signs of a bacterial infection, which may have been caused by eating some bad meat. Read more about it here.

25-08-2009 12:54PM

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Bones from a roughly 2 million year old human relative appear to show signs of a bacterial infection, which may have been caused by eating some bad meat.
Read more about it here.

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66 million years ago - was a program on about it
- cba looking up a better link :pac:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/dinoauction/

Samson’s skull was discovered intact, unlike most skulls, including Sue’s, which are in pieces. There are bite marks from other dinosaurs and places where the bone has been eaten away by infection.

“This animal, when it died, was in a lot of pain,” Lindgren said. “But we don’t know what killed it.”

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