The controversy surrounding the flowering of syphilis in the late 15th century may have been solved -- and it looks as though we might owe an awkward phone call to our friends across the Atlantic.
A new study provides what scientists say is the most convincing
evidence to date that the Italian adventurer [Christopher Columbus] and some of his crew
contracted the disease during their voyage to the New World—and
unwittingly introduced it to the old one circa 1493.
Way to ruin Fleet Week 2008, stupid scientists!
