Mummies once had it, tool Tuberculosis is one of the world's oldest communicable diseases. Traces of the tuberculosis bacillus have been found in Egyptian mummies and in the remains of early humans.
結核病的病原體是結核桿菌，也是世界上最早的傳染病之一，在埃及曾發現感染結核菌的木乃伊，考古學者所發掘出來早期人類骨骼中，也曾發現結核病的病徵。