[HN Gopher] Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of human dis...
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       Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of human disease history
        
       Author : XzetaU8
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2025-07-10 07:42 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | mistrial9 wrote:
       | Leprosy was described in the Bible so a specimen from 1,400 years
       | ago seems less than impressive
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_leprosy
        
         | jackstraw42 wrote:
         | From your link:
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         | > Famously, the "leprosy" of most translations of the Bible as
         | far back as the Septuagint represents a multilayered historical
         | process of confusion. The state of ritual impurity known to the
         | Hebrews as tzara'ath (tsara`at, "struck")[9] seems to have been
         | a conflation of various skin disorders, owing to the
         | undeveloped state of medical science at that period.
         | 
         | Difficult to be certain that "leprosy" in the Bible is the same
         | one we're talking about today.
        
           | mistrial9 wrote:
           | yes I read that, but the whole paper says that leprosy as we
           | name it now, originated directly around that geographic area
           | and was spread directly from there..
        
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