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 Seals, Not Europeans, Brought Tuberculosis to New WorldGenetic tests have cast doubt on the long-held belief that Europeans arriving in the Americas in the 15th century introduced tuberculosis to the New World. The new evidence, collected from ancient Peruvian skeletons that predate the Europeans' arrival by about 500 years, suggests it was not humans at all but seals that first brought TB to the Americas. Researchers hypothesize that seals picked up the disease from infected humans in Africa, where TB originated, and then carried it across the ocean to the Americas, where they were hunted and eaten, thereby transmitting the disease to humans there. More...
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"90% of Native Americans were wiped out by new infections." 
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And we try to save the seals... Okay!!!
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The Alaska natives hunt and eat seals all the time, why they are not having the same problem? Just a bunch of B.S.
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The next study will show how ants had kidnapped all those blacks from Africa. And they have pictures to prove it.
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I agree with Alexander Lo--some BS! 
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If I were a cynic, I would ask, "Has anything good ever come out of Africa?"
But someone might say, "But we humans came out of Africa?"
"I repeat..."
That is, if I were a cynic...
Six thousand years, at a minimum...etc.
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Okay, let's put the blame on the seals.
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I still like to see seals play. People bring infections all the time so we can't blame it on the seals / animals.
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You've really have to love those scientist's, that work to figure out all of these interesting things. Now when they can explain to me just how Noah was able to get a pair of Duckbilled Platypuses' into his ark, I'll start believing in those nice but rather silly stories in the holy book. Peace to ya all... :-)
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