Europeans Brought New, Deadly Ulcer Bacteria to Americas

Friday, February 24, 2017 - 02:51 in Health & Medicine

Europeans and their African slaves brought strains of ulcer- and cancer-causing H. pylori bacteria that wiped out the local strains of these bacteria and may have led to the current high rates of disease in South America.

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