Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of human disease history
cam.ac.uk29 points by XzetaU8 17 hours ago
29 points by XzetaU8 17 hours ago
Leprosy was described in the Bible so a specimen from 1,400 years ago seems less than impressive
From your link:
> 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 (צָרַעַת, "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.
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..