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