{"id":19492,"date":"2025-07-01T18:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2025\/07\/01\/before-columbus-a-4000-year-old-skeleton-reveals-a-rare-leprosy-strain-in-the-americas\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:04:57","slug":"before-columbus-a-4000-year-old-skeleton-reveals-a-rare-leprosy-strain-in-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2025\/07\/01\/before-columbus-a-4000-year-old-skeleton-reveals-a-rare-leprosy-strain-in-the-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Columbus: A 4,000-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals a Rare Leprosy Strain in the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/before-columbus-a-4000-year-old-skeleton-reveals-a-rare-leprosy-strain-in-the-americas\/\" title=\"Before Columbus: A 4,000-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals a Rare Leprosy Strain in the Americas\"><\/a>Scientists have decoded the genetic blueprints of a rare leprosy bacterium preserved in 4,000-year-old Chilean skeletons, opening a surprising new chapter in the story of Hansen\u2019s disease. Researchers reconstructed two complete genomes of Mycobacterium lepromatosis, an uncommon cousin of the main leprosy germ. The discovery pushes the timeline of Hansen\u2019s disease in the Americas back [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have decoded the genetic blueprints of a rare leprosy bacterium preserved in 4,000-year-old Chilean skeletons, opening a surprising new chapter in the story of Hansen\u2019s disease. Researchers reconstructed two complete genomes of Mycobacterium lepromatosis, an uncommon cousin of the main leprosy germ. The discovery pushes the timeline of Hansen\u2019s disease in the Americas back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2025\/07\/01\/before-columbus-a-4000-year-old-skeleton-reveals-a-rare-leprosy-strain-in-the-americas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Before Columbus: A 4,000-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals a Rare Leprosy Strain in the Americas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}