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Ancient bones shed new light on debate over origins of syphilis

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Syphilis is part of a small family of diseases that includes yaws and bejel.

The disease-ravaged bones, which predate Columbus ’s first voyage to the New World , harboured genomes of bacteria from the syphilis disease family.

One camp believes it emerged in the Americas and was brought to Europe by Columbus in 1493 .

Another suspects it was lurking in Europe before the explorer set sail.

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English

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