[HN Gopher] Rewriting the history of syphilis
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       Rewriting the history of syphilis
        
       Author : gmays
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2023-09-28 14:51 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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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.
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           | 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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