Rewriting the history of syphilis

[gmays]

https://www.wired.com/story/a-medieval-french-skeleton-is-rewriting-the-history-of-syphilis/

[uranium]

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

[readthenotes1]

For a counter-narrative:

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

[DonaldFisk → readthenotes1]

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.

[acqq]

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...

[DoesntMatter22]

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 → DoesntMatter22]

Have a link handy?

[DonaldFisk → scns]

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

[DoesntMatter22 → DonaldFisk]

Yup that's it. THanks.

[selimthegrim]

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