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Poop-encrusted chamber pots from the Roman Empire reveal oldest known human cases of crypto parasite

Chamber pots from the frontier of the Roman Empire have provided the world's earliest evidence of humans infected with the ...
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Ancient Roman pots reveal earliest human Cryptosporidium cases

Archaeologists analyzing mineralized waste from Roman-era chamber pots in Bulgaria have uncovered the world’s earliest known human cases of Cryptosporidium infection. The findings, published in npj ...

Scraped from ancient Roman toilets, these crusted remains expose a pathogen found far earlier than expected

Modern analytical tools are no less than a time machine. From their 21st-century labs, researchers can peer into the everyday ...
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Parasite Once Believed to Originate in the Americas Discovered in Roman Chamber Pots from the Ancient Province of Moesia Inferior

An international team of researchers has managed to reconstruct the health and sanitation conditions of the inhabitants of ...
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Parasite Believed to Originate in the Americas Found in Roman Bulgaria

Credit: Elena Klenina / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. A discovery of a parasite thought to originate in the Americas is challenging ...