Europe gave them Small Pox, got Syphilis in return

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A new analysis of the genetics of syphilis provides support for the theory that the disease hitched a ride with Christopher Columbus from the New World back to the Old World.

But in a new wrinkle, the research suggests the disease may not have been transmitted through sex until it adapted to the environment in Europe.

"It evolved this whole new transmission mode, and it didn't take very many genetic changes," said study lead author Kristin Harper, a graduate student at Emory University. "What this tells us is that new transmission modes may evolve pretty rapidly. This is important to us today, because we're worried about things like avian influenza going from human to human."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/columbuscarrie...pestudysuggests

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I read somewhere that Ancient Greeks suffered from syphilis as well. Its quite possible that the New World harbored one particular strain of Treponema that became easily spread in post-medieval Europe...

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

bird flu!!! run for the hills!!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

If there's anything to be learned, it's that isolationism is bad for the human race.

[Nagishkaw 510]

bird flu!!! run for the hills!!

[almaty 19]

the bullhead has been around forever.........

[Ban Hammer 13,360]

If there's anything to be learned, it's that isolationism is bad for the human race.

why? it woulda quarantined some of this #######.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

If there's anything to be learned, it's that isolationism is bad for the human race.

Thanks to airplanes no one is isolated any more. Or is this more of your 'illegal immigration is good' rhetoric?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

If there's anything to be learned, it's that isolationism is bad for the human race.

Dunno - did you hear the story about the indigenous South Americans having perfect teeth until they came in contact with European settlers?

That and the whole mess of colonialization that followed in North and South America and Africa. Plenty of human misery.

[almaty 19]

If there's anything to be learned, it's that isolationism is bad for the human race.

Dunno - did you hear the story about the indigenous South Americans having perfect teeth until they came in contact with European settlers?

That and the whole mess of colonialization that followed in North and South America and Africa. Plenty of human misery.

i agree.. the problem is when a people ..take american indians , come in contact with europeans..they ahd no defenses against the diseases they brought...

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People and other living beings migrate all the time. This is all part of the cirle of life *breaks into song*

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

People and other living beings migrate all the time. This is all part of the cirle of life *breaks into song*

Though when the birds fly south for the winter they don't rape and pillage as they go

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

People and other living beings migrate all the time. This is all part of the cirle of life *breaks into song*

Though when the birds fly south for the winter they don't rape and pillage as they go

Maybe not, but if they take disease with them, they can have the same impact on their host environments. Same is true for many other animals, water life, insects, etc.

Habitats get destroyed and from the destruction arises a new order. Such is the circle of life *breaks into song again*

[Ban Hammer 13,360]

People and other living beings migrate all the time. This is all part of the cirle of life *breaks into song*

don't get me started on that or i'll ask when you are going to join that circle.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

People and other living beings migrate all the time. This is all part of the cirle of life *breaks into song*

don't get me started on that or i'll ask when you are going to join that circle.

My wife and I went to broadway recently to watch lion king.

*breaks into song yet again*