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Asked by neve to Kevin, Liz, Beccy, Rosie on 14 Jun 2017.
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anon answered on 14 Jun 2017:
I’m certain that people recognized clusters of similar illness within small communities well before they had anything like a germ theory of illnesses. So we can’t possibly know what the first instance was.
We can though use modern science to look at diseases that were spreading long ago. For instance they have found evidence of tuberculosis in mummies:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17880-dna-tests-on-mummy-show-tb-killed-ancient-egyptian/
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