{"id":111054,"date":"2022-09-11T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=odkrycia-rzymskie&#038;p=111054"},"modified":"2022-09-11T09:53:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T07:53:54","slug":"scientists-have-found-that-malaria-also-occurred-in-ancient-rome","status":"publish","type":"odkrycia-rzymskie","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/discoveries\/scientists-have-found-that-malaria-also-occurred-in-ancient-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have found that malaria also occurred in ancient Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists first discovered evidence of malaria around 2,<a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/discoveries\/pagan-basilica-in-rome-regains-its-splendor-after-2000-years\/\">000 years<\/a> ago. Malaria residues in DNA were found in Roman remains. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Scientists extracted genetic material from the teeth of 58 adults and 10 children who were buried in three Italian cemeteries from Roman times &#8211; the present-day Velia, Isola Sacra and Vagnari (all dated to the 4th century CE). Researchers recovered the mitochondrial genome that allowed them to detect a specific strain of malaria that the Romans died of.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, the type of malaria is <em>Plasmodium falciparum<\/em> which is exactly the same disease that is spread by mosquitoes today and kills hundreds of thousands of people every year. Scientists say malaria was a serious nuisance for the ancient Romans. Researchers believe that as many people have died of malaria in Rome&#8217;s history as they are now dying in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/romes-contacts-with-africa-and-far-east\/\">Africa<\/a>. In 2015, 438,000 people worldwide died of malaria, while 91% of them were in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Descriptions of this disease can be found in ancient sources. It is mentioned by Hippocrates or Celsus in <em>De Medicina,<\/em> but the ancients were not able to distinguish the disease unambiguously, because its symptoms (including fever) were characteristic of many diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36955,"template":"","class_list":["post-111054","odkrycia-rzymskie","type-odkrycia-rzymskie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/111054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/111054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}