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Anthropologist Alex Bentley tells The Conversation Weekly about his research how modelling the spread of COVID sparked new research on the spread of disease in early civilisations.
Reports of TB date back to the time of Hippocrates, but the Kansas outbreak shows that the ancient disease is very much a modern-day scourge.
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Professor of Microbiology, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Colorado State University
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Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
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PhD Candidate in ancient pathogen genetics, School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin
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Associate Professor, School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin