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    PARASITE FROM FOSSILISED VIKING POO HAS GENOME MAPPED

    Oct 12, 2022 2 minutes

    By extracting fossilised eggs from samples of faeces collected from Viking settlements across Denmark, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have mapped the genome of the whipworm – a parasite that has infected humans for tens of thousands of years.

    While the human is now rarely found in developed countries, it is thought to infect more than 500 million people in developing countries.

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