Reply #90: actually, it is more likely that pre-columbus-era bones in europe

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that exhibit syphilitic damage are a result of another spirochetal disease, yaws. paleo-anthropologists have shown clearly syphlitic bones (indigenous) on hispanola, near where columbus and his men made camp. scientists have been debating from whence the clever spirochete, treponema pallidum, appeared, for hundreds of years. your post exhibits something of a lack of a grasp of the subject. try to do better next time. in retrospect, i did make a mistake, in saying that the seige of naples was 1493 when, in fact it was 1495 . . . coincidentially the time of the first documented syphilis epidemic.