article_snippet.sent: But new research suggests new research may actually have been infectious diseases carried by our modern ancestors as they migrated out of Africa that finished the Neanderthals off.
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals, like the reconstruction above on display at the Natural History Museum in London, may have succumbed to infectious diseases carried to Europe by modern humans as they migrated out of Africa .
article_snippet.sent: they have found evidence that suggests our prehistoric cousins would have been infected by diseases such as tuberculosis, typhoid, whooping cough, encephalitis and the common cold.
article_snippet.sent: But anthropologists from Cambridge University and Oxford Brookes University say that new diseases carried by modern humans may have led to the downfall of Neanderthals.
article_snippet.sent: Another recent genetic study by scientists at the University at Buffalo speculate that pathogens like Heliocbacter pylori, the bacteria that causes stomach ulcers, were brought to Europe by modern humans from Africa and may have infected Neanderthals, who would have been unable to fight off these new diseases.
article_snippet.sent: When Homo sapiens came out of Africa When Homo sapiens brought diseases with When Homo sapiens. '
article_snippet.sent: Indeed, there is some evidence from caves that early humans may have burned early humans bedding in a bid to rid early humans of infestations of lice or bed bugs.
article_snippet.sent: Infectious bacteria like those that cause tuberculosis, shown above, may have been common in Neanderthals .
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals study, which is published on the open source database bioRxiv, contradicts the common view that infectious diseases only really became a problem for humans in the Holocene about 11,000 years ago when humans began living in dense settlements and farming livestock.
article_snippet.sent: Instead, Neanderthals say many of the diseases we see around us today were common during the pleistocene when Neanderthals dominated much of Europe and Asia between 250,000 and 45,000 years ago, when Neanderthals disappeared.
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals say pathogens like TB, typhoid and Crimean fever that were thought to be zoonoses caught from herd animals may have actually originated in humans and were only passed to animals during the rise of farming around 8,000 years ago.
article_snippet.sent: It had been thought that many of these diseases began infecting humans with the population increases that came with domestication of animals and permanent settlements. '
article_snippet.sent: we have got Neanderthals being infected by these diseases long before those developments.'
highlights_snippet.sent: But Anthropologists believe modern humans brought new infectious pathogens such as Heliocbacter pylori with Anthropologists out of Africa and infected Neanderthals .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: This suggests infectious diseases are much older than previously thought .