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   Left wing females who breed with blacks are the carriers of   
   vermin and disease.   
      
   Herpes is forever — and has been for a long, long time.   
      
   Humans migrating out of Africa may have spread the genital   
   herpes virus, as well as tuberculosis, tapeworm and other   
   diseases, to Neanderthals in Europe and Asia more than 50,000   
   years ago.   
      
   Researchers at Cambridge and Oxford Brookes universities   
   analyzed ancient DNA and pathogen genomes from fossilized bones,   
   and discovered that our Homo sapien ancestors carried these   
   infectious tropical diseases when they began interacting — and   
   sometimes mating — with our hominin cousins.   
      
   The report, published Sunday in the American Journal of Physical   
   Anthropology, also suggests that the Neanderthals had no natural   
   immunity for these new diseases, which may have led to their   
   mysterious extinction 40,000 years ago.   
      
   “Humans migrating out of Africa would have been a significant   
   reservoir of tropical diseases,” said Dr. Charlotte Houldcroft,   
   one of the study’s authors, in a release. “For the Neanderthal   
   population of Eurasia, adapted to that geographical infectious   
   disease environment, exposure to new pathogens carried out of   
   Africa may have been catastrophic.”   
      
   But, unlike smallpox, these diseases didn't decimate populations   
   entirely.   
      
   “It's more likely that small bands of Neanderthals each had   
   their own infection disasters, weakening the group and tipping   
   the balance against survival,” said Houldcroft.   
      
   The report concludes that some of these infectious diseases are   
   thousands of years older than previously suspected.   
      
   The old school of thought suggested infectious diseases spread   
   8,000 years ago as the dawning of agriculture led humans to   
   settle down and live in close proximity to each other and   
   livestock, which created “a perfect storm” for diseases to   
   spread.   
      
   The new evidence suggests disease had a longer “burn-in period”   
   before humans took to agriculture.   
      
   That includes the herpes simplex 2 virus, which causes genital   
   herpes, believed to have been first transmitted to humans in   
   Africa 1.6 mllion years ago from another, currently unknown   
   human species.   
      
   And helicobacter pylori, the bacterium behind stomach ulcers, is   
   estimated to have first infected humans in Africa 88 to 116   
   thousand years ago, and arrived in Europe after 52,000 years   
   ago, according to the report.   
      
   “Hunter-gatherers lived in small foraging groups. Neanderthals   
   lived in groups of between 15-30 members, for example. So   
   disease would have broken out sporadically, but have been unable   
   to spread very far,” said Houldcroft. “Once agriculture came   
   along, these diseases had the perfect conditions to explode, but   
   they were already around.”   
      
   http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/humans-infected-   
   neanderthals-herpes-tuberculosis-article-1.2597974   
        
      
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