Syphilis seem to appear in Europe about 1495. However, there is controversy about whether it existed before then. Every European country named it after another country which it blamed, the French disease, the Neapolitan disease, the Polish disease, etc. so naming a disease after where people thought it originated is very common throughout history. If it was distributed from Native Americans to Europeans, it would seem like justice, considering the Europeans wiped out Native American with small pox and other diseases they had no immunities to. This virus CAME FROM CHINA. Just a fact, not racism. Can call it the China virus but SARS came from there too.
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