Cristóbal Rojas (1886). Rojas was suffering from<unk>  when he painted this. Here he depicts the social aspect of the disease, and its relation with living conditions at the close of the 19th century. Throughout history, the disease<unk>  has been variously known as consumption, phthisis, and the White Plague. It is generally accepted that the causative agent, Mycobacterium<unk>  originated from other, more primitive organisms of the same genus Mycobacterium. In 2014, results of a new DNA study of a<unk>  genome reconstructed from remains in southern Peru suggest that human<unk>  is less than 6,000 years old. Even if researchers theorise that humans first acquired it in Africa about 5,000 years ago, there is evidence that the first<unk>  infection happened about 9,000 years ago. It spread to other humans along trade routes. It also spread to domesticated animals in Africa, such as goats and cows. Seals and sea lions that bred on African beaches are believed to have acquired the disease and carried it across the Atlantic to South America. Hunters would have been the first humans to contract the disease there.
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