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| DoesntMatter22 wrote:
| There is a documentary on this from like 10+ years ago that
| showed the same thing. I'm not sure why this is new
| scns wrote:
| Have a link handy?
| DonaldFisk wrote:
| This documentary shows archaeological evidence of syphilis in
| 14th Century Hull, England.
|
| 1495 Syphilis Outbreak: The Deadly Disease That Swept Across
| Europe | The Syphilis Enigma | Timeline:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bWNF_eNwvI
| readthenotes1 wrote:
| For a counter-narrative:
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| https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/40/10/1454/308400?login...
| DonaldFisk wrote:
| The article argues that the pre-Columbian skeletons in Europe
| (incl. the ones from the graveyard in Hull) had yaws (a disease
| causes by another spirochete) rather than syphilis. Yaws (at
| least nowadays) is a tropical disease.
| uranium wrote:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20230928005434/https://www.wired...
| selimthegrim wrote:
| Maybe this is yet another explanation for the origin of cagots in
| France and Spain.
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