Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Animal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Animal</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/diseases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diseases</span></a> leapt to <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/humans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humans</span></a> when we started keeping <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/livestock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>livestock</span></a><br>When <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/huntergatherers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>huntergatherers</span></a> began living close to animals, the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/pathogens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pathogens</span></a> that cause the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/plague" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plague</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/leprosy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>leprosy</span></a> got closer too.<br>The <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/genomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genomic</span></a> study identified 5,486 <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DNA</span></a> sequences from <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/viruses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>viruses</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/parasites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parasites</span></a> in blood remnants from bones and teeth spanning 37,000 years. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Zoonotic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zoonotic</span></a> pathogens were detected only in remains 6,500 years old or younger. <br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02165-x" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-025</span><span class="invisible">-02165-x</span></a></p>