Pre-columbian America
In South America, the first evidence of the disease is found in the Arawak culture around 1050 BC, although the most significant finding belongs to the mummy of an 8 to 10-year-old Nascan child from Hacienda Agua Sala, dated to 700 AD. Scientists were able to isolate evidence of the bacillus.
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