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Ancient feces reveal how ‘marsh diet’ left Bronze Age Fen folk infected with parasites

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‘Coprolites’ from the Must Farm archaeological excavation in East Anglia, UK, shows the prehistoric inhabitants were infected by parasitic worms that can be spread by eating raw fish, frogs and shellfish.

Source: ScienceDaily.com