Parasite egg plucked from an ancient grave suggests farmers accidentally spread deadly diseases 6,000 years ago. The grave and egg were discovered by the Euphrates River in Syria, ...

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The snail eggs can be transmitted on the feet of birds, and the parasite spread by infected travellers going to the toilet in or near to water sources. More than 200m people in the world are ...

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – The discovery of a schistosomiasis parasite egg in a 6,200-year-old grave in Syria may be the earliest evidence that agricultural irrigation systems in the … ...

Archaeologists discovered egg near child skeleton in northern Syria. ... Scientists find 6,200-year-old parasite egg. AP. LONDON (AP) — In a skeleton more than 6,200 years old, ...

I knew exactly who to send them to for identification help: Chelsea Wood, a parasite ecologist at the University of Washington—and perhaps the world’s only person who uses words like ...

The parasite egg hails from the Fertile Crescent, a region around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Middle East, where some of the first irrigation techniques were invented about 7,500 years ago.

Infamous examples include the anti-nausea drug thalidomide, which caused limb defects in unborn babies, and the pesticide DDT, which led to poorly formed egg shells in birds of prey and a crash in ...

In a skeleton more than 6,200 years old, scientists have found the earliest known evidence of infection with a parasitic worm that now afflicts more than 200 million people worldwide.