"Four of the five skeletons [we analyzed] are dated before 1492, meaning that this pathogen diversity was already present in the Americas at time of [Chrisopher] Columbian contact."
"The so-called 'Columbian hypothesis' argues that syphilis was brought over to Europe by sailors returning from their colonization of indigenous Americans, leading to an exchange of diseases as new goods were shared."
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