The gut bacteria inside 1000-year-old mummies from the Inca Empire are resistant to most of today’s antibiotics, even though we only discovered these drugs within the last 100 years.
“At first we were very surprised,” Tasha Santiago-Rodriguez of California Polytechnic State University in San Louis Opisbo, told the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology last month.
Her team studied the DNA within the guts of three Incan mummies dating back to between the 10th and 14thcenturies and six mummified people from Italy, from between the 15th and 18th centuries. They found an array of genes that have the potential to resist almost all modern antibiotics, including penicillin, vancomycin and tetracycline...https://www.newscientist.com/article/2096495-antibiotic-resistance-discovered-in-the-guts-of-ancient-mummies/
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