Rewriting the history of syphilis

https://web.archive.org/web/20230928005434/https://www.wired...

For a counter-narrative:

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/40/10/1454/308400?login...

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.

TIL

"You've Heard of Smallpox, But What Was the Great Pox?" (2018)

https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/literature/pox-...

"The Great Pox that was…syphilis" (2001)

https://ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046...

There is a documentary on this from like 10+ years ago that showed the same thing. I'm not sure why this is new

Have a link handy?

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

Yup that's it. THanks.

Maybe this is yet another explanation for the origin of cagots in France and Spain.