How disease has fed on China’s progress – shift from nomadic hunters to farming communities sowed the seeds for millennia of sickness | South China Morning Post

How disease has fed on China’s progress – shift from nomadic hunters to farming communities sowed the seeds for millennia of sickness | South China Morning Post: From malarial neolithic settlements on the Yellow River plain to the plague-ravaged Mongols and today’s host-jumping pathogens, disease has long helped to shape China.