This caravan route meant a lot more than the usual shopping channel.
Scientists accused the Great silk road in the spread of infections. He operated for many centuries and linked the East and West.
Ancient traders brought him not only unknown in the West, spices, silk and other trade items, but unknown in Europe perception of the world, other technologies and religion. This caravan route meant a lot more than the usual shopping channel. At the same time, experts note that on the silk road in the European part of the continent were imported not only goods and occasions for thought, but and infectious diseases, to which Europeans were not familiar.
In particular, scientists have found that one of the sources of infiltration were items that were discovered in places that served the drovers as a toilet. It is a wooden or bamboo sticks with cloth wrapped around one end. They still retained the remnants of the excrement of the Eastern traders.
As it turned out, they contained eggs Eastern worms parasites that to complete his life-span need humid climate. And, once in desert conditions, they long retained their harmful for people properties. If contaminated people have emptied near the water source, the eggs got in and infected the fish, which people eat and is also massively infected. Such a disease could cause, at best diarrhea, and, at worst, up to liver cancer and death infected.
