Not sure how accurate it was, but back in history class in school, syphillis was always used as an example of a disease that was brought to Europe from the Amer

Not sure how accurate it was, but back in history class in school, syphillis was always used as an example of a disease that was brought to Europe from the Americas (as a converse to smallpox being brought over from Europe). We were told these were part of the so-called "Columbian exchange": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange