Washington, October 15: Detailed analyses of the bones excavated from a 9000 year-old Pre-Pottery Neolithic village, submerged off the coast of Haifa in Israel, have provided confirmatory evidence of human tuberculosis (TB).
Research collaborators from University College London and Tel-Aviv University said that their study suggested that human tuberculosis in bones is about 3,000 years older than previously thought.
They said that their findings also confirmed the latest theory that bovine TB evolved later than human TB.