Diverse germs may help you fight disease
A group of Yanomami Indians sit in their village called Irotatheri in Venezuela's Amazon region, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Researchers studying the Yanomami people foundsomething else. After studying the population ofmicrobes living in and on the Yanomami's bodies, theresearchers said they found more diversity than in anyother people they have ever studied. This diversity ismore than other Amazonian farmers and much morethan Americans.