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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases stories: 1 news summaries

Columbus
Gave Europe Syphilis

Disease originated
with explorer's return from New World

(Newser) - New genetic evidence gives Christopher Columbus credit for bringing back a different sort of bounty from the New World—the scourge of syphilis. Columbus and his crew returned home with a sexually transmitted form of a disease native to South America, say Emory University researchers. Soon after, the first known... More »

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