When was syphilis first heard off.?

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Interesting question. Check this quote:

"Debate about the origins of syphilis has continued for nearly 500 years, ever since early sixteenth-century Europeans blamed each other, referring to it variously as the Venetian, Naples, or French disease. One hypothesis assumes a New World origin, and holds that sailors who accompanied Columbus and other explorers brought the disease back to Europe. Another explanation is that syphilis was always present in the Old World but was not identified as a separate disease from leprosy before about A.D. 1500. A third possibility is that syphilis developed in both hemispheres from the related diseases bejel and yaws."

I got this from this site:

http://www.archaeology.org/9701/newsbriefs/syphilis.html

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Long time ago -- even in Shakespear's days there was syphillis.

I think syphilis dates back to the mid to early middle ages in Italy, I think.

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