Syphilis Circulating Early in Europe

Aug 17, 2020

As a syphilis epidemic raged in Europe beginning in the late 1400s, Science notes that some researchers suspect that Christopher Columbus or his crew may have brought the bacterium that causes it back from the Americas. Other Treponema pallidum subspecies, it notes, cause yaws and bejel, diseases that are known to have been circulating in the Americas prior to Columbus' arrival.

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