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INFECTIOUS DISEASES: Isolated Tribe Gives Clues to the Origins of Syphilis
Carl Zimmer
A team of researchers argues in work published this week that syphilis originated as a milder, nonsexual disease in the New World and evolved into its current form after Europeans arrived.