New study blames Columbus for syphilis spread

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Do you know who brought syphilis to Europe from the New World? Now researches are pointing at Christopher Columbus for bringing that dreadful disease there. LOL! "Some people think it is a really ancient disease that our earliest human ancestors would have had. Other people think it came from the New World," said Kristin Harper, an evolutionary biologist at Emory University in Atlanta. "What we found is that syphilis or a progenitor came from the New World to the Old World and this happened pretty recently in human history," said Harper, whose study appears in journal Public Library of Science Neglected Tropical Diseases. Well, one thing for sure, a dead man can't come up to his defense against this allegation... LOL! Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080115/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_syphilis_columbus;_ylt=ArTpY0SnupGaF2gK5Eciz2ftiBIF