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A few of the other comments had me curious, but while it's widely known that diseases brought over from Europe were devastating to the native populations of the
by Teknoman117 5y ago
A few of the other comments had me curious, but while it's widely known that diseases brought over from Europe were devastating to the native populations of the Americas, are there any notable examples of transfer in the other direction - i.e. new diseases the Europeans encountered in the Americas that got brought back to Europe?
- cogman10 5y agoSyphilis is thought to be a new world disease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_syphilis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_syphilis
- staticfloat 5y agoAha! A chance to plug one of my favorite CGP Grey videos that explores this very question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk
- Teknoman117 5y agoThat's a super interesting video. Thanks!
- tschwimmer 5y agoSyphilis was thought to have been carried from the Americas to Europe by Columbus' crewmen.[0] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis#History