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Syphilis
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
What Is Syphilis?
The first recorded outbreak of syphilis in the Western world was in 1494, 1495. There is a theory that Christopher Columbus had gone and done his wonderful things in the Americas. And he took terrible diseases over there which caused absolutely devastated the native populations. It could look like a lot of other diseases such as leprosy or flu-like symptoms. People thought they were actually being misdiagnosed with syphilis. We didn't realize until there was this particular outbreak again to do with war in 1494/1495.
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