Thanks to genetic material recently recovered from a 100-year old lung specimen, a new study has traced the emergence of measles to around 6th century BCE.
The research found that children who tested positive for COVID-19 were at no greater risk of being diagnosed with asthma over the next 18 months compared to children who tested negative.
Researchers in Australia say their evidence points to the possibility that this knowledge was "suppressed" and was kept from the public during the pandemic.