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Mycobacterium tuberculosis has plagued humans and their ancestors since leaving Africa, then jumped from humans to seals, where it traveled across the ocean and jumped back into the native humans in North America in yet another new strain; several centuries before European humans began colonizing North America.
— Sep 23, 2026 11:13AM
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“We and the Romans are the same (except we substituted football for gladiator fights and they staged events in which naked emperors fought ostriches).”
If anyone decides to revive this custom, my money is on the ostriches. Ostriches are terrifying.
— Sep 23, 2026 11:34AM
If anyone decides to revive this custom, my money is on the ostriches. Ostriches are terrifying.
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End note: K. I. Bos, K. M. Harkins, A. Herbig, M. Coscolla, N. Weber, I. Comas, S. A. Forrest, J. M. Bryant, S. R. Harris, V. J. Schuenemann, and T. J Campbell, “Pre-Columbian Mycobacterial Genomes Reveal Seals as a Source of New World Human Tuberculosis,” Nature 514, no. 7523 (2014): 494–497. Also see S. Rodriguez-Campos, N. H. Smith, M. B. Boniotti, and A. Aranaz, “Overview and Phylogeny of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Organisms: Implications for Diagnostics and Legislation of Bovine Tuberculosis,” Research in Veterinary Science 97 (2014): S5–S19.
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