Unusual Parasites Plagued Bronze Age Fen Folk And Their Dogs

Unusual Parasites Plagued Bronze Age Fen Folk And Their Dogs
Parasites aplenty riddled humans and their dogs at a swampy site in Bronze Age England. From left: Microscopic eggs of a fish tapeworm, giant kidney worm and Echinostoma worm found in ancient feces from the Must Farm site. (Black scale bar represents 20 micrometers.) (Credit: M. Ledger, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University) Around 3,000 years ago, people were going about their business in a marshy corner of eastern England known as The Fens. These Fenland folk had just built

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August 16, 2019 at 02:00AM

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