Pathogen screening of the community buried at the early medieval settlement Lauchheim “Mittelhofen” in Germany shows 30% of the population was positive for at least one pathogen at the time of death, reports a study published in GenomeBiology
Although the dating of the Lauchheim settlement abuts the Justinian plague , no traces of the causative were found in any of the analyzed samples. Moreover, in the case of the Lauchheim settlement, most likely not all inhabitants were buried within its borders and part of the population might have been buried in the traditional graveyard situated nearby or at another unknown location. Overall, the burials may not be representative of the general Lauchheim population.
In the early medieval community of Lauchheim, we observed a high prevalence of infectious diseases caused by four different pathogens. Pathogens were detected in all six burial groups, indicating a broad distribution of infections across the population. The extent of the disease burden becomes even more apparent when considering the fact that pathogens which do not enter the bloodstream are most likely undetectable, due to lack of DNA preservation.
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