10 Horrifying Prehistoric Diseases Still Ravaging the Modern World

Beneath the glacier that preserved Ötzi the Iceman, inside nine-thousand-year-old Atacama mummies, and embedded in a vertebra two and a half million years old, scientists keep finding the same pathogens that fill modern hospital wards. From Lyme disease and Chagas to tuberculosis and leprosy, the diseases that shadowed our deepest ancestors never let go — and climate change is now thawing pathogens that should have stayed buried forever. This is the haunting story of ten prehistoric infections written into our bones long before history began. Chapters: 00:00 - Lyme Disease in Ötzi the Iceman 02:54 - Chagas Disease in the Chinchorro Mummies 06:20 - Visceral Leishmaniasis in Ancient Nubia and Egypt 10:00 - Schistosomiasis in Predynastic Egypt 13:53 - Brucellosis in Early Hominins 17:42 - Helicobacter pylori 21:26 - Neolithic Plague 25:13 - The Tapeworm We Caught From Ice Age Carnivores 29:06 - Leprosy 32:55 - Tuberculosis #PrehistoricDiseases #AncientDNA #Paleopathology #Otzi #ChinchorroMummies #Tuberculosis #BlackDeath #LymeDisease #ClimateChange #FossilFred