I recently watched a new documentary, at least to me, about Pompeii in which the remains found in a cellar had a SDT, not sure which one, which is also well before the New World was discovered.
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[BIG SNIP]
This, too
was seen in real life. The first Europeans to visit the New
World brought back disease for which they had no immunity
either, like syphilis, which progressed and killed much
faster back then that it does today.
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Speaking of syphilis there was a documentary (Secrets of the Dead?) that I watched some years back.
It concerned the disinterment of the grave of a noble, in England, that showed clear signs of having suffered this disease.
The problem was that the noble died a few centuries before Columbus!
According to the authors/producers syphilis was a well-known problem for a long, long time before Columbus, both in the New & Old Worlds.
They estimated that almost all the indigenous pop in the Caribbean contracted it in their teens but it was something akin to modern 'chicken pox'.
It hit & looked gross but then went away w/ no after effects except, perhaps, minor scarring.
However, when the two varieties came into contact, they sorta' merged into a 'super-bug' which has been bouncing back & forth, all over the globe, ever since.
Anyone else have any info?
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