The common cold could predate humans by 500,000 YEARS and likely plagued Neanderthals, new study finds

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• Analysis of 31,000-year-old teeth found DNA traces of several common viruses
• The infections included human adenovirus C, associated with the 'common cold'
• Researchers compared the bug to modern-day strains and extrapolated when their common ancestor emerged
• They put it at between 487,000 and 963,000 years ago, with a best estimate of about 702,000 years ago
• The earliest estimates for modern homo sapiens is just 200,000 years ago

 

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Earlier Hepatitis B virus was fully sequenced from a 7000 year old tooth.
Also recently from a 17th Century tomb a variola virus (Smallpox) was fully sequenced and a high quality copy made.Surprisingly, this viral DNA shared many distinct features with modern strains of the variola virus, including several mutations, suggesting they were closely related.

But to recover a virus even in parts from a 31,000 year old sample is truly remarkable.

 

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