Funerary Stele of the Priest Rom(a) about 1400 BC (IMAGE)
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Funerary stele of the priest Rom(a) about 1400BC shows the withered limb and down-flexed foot of poliomyelitis. This artifact is in the Carlsberg ny Glyptothek in Copenhagen, Denmark and is thought by many to be the first documentation of a human disease caused by and infectious agent.
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Knowlson et al (2015)
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