How Syphilis Sailed Into Europe with Columbus

Daily MailJanuary 15, 2008

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IN 1493 Christopher Columbus made it back to Spain after his historic first voyage.

With him he brought news of lands across the Atlantic, a handful of native prisoners . . . and syphilis.

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How Syphilis Sailed Into Europe with Columbus

Columbus and his crew are thought to have introduced the potentially fatal sexually-transmitted disease from the Americas to Europe.

In an era hundreds...

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