A doctor in a white lab coat examines bones of an iron age tuberculosis victim from 300BC

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Simon Mays, a Human Skeletal Biologist with English Heritage inspects the Tuberculosis infected Lumbar Vertebrae of Britains earliest known TB victim a 30 year old 300BC Iron Age man The bones are on a sheet of glass The rare skeleton, discovered in a iron age grave in Tarrant Hinton near Blandford Forum in Dorset, was confirmed to have the disease by DNA tests

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