Europeans brought many diseases to the Americas. Which disease did they carry back?
Tuberculosis
Smallpox
Typhus
Syphilis
Syphilis was present in the Americas before European contact. It was carried from the Americas to Europe by the returning crewmen from Christopher Columbus's voyage. The first outbreak of syphilis in Europe occurred in 1494 in Naples, Italy, during a French invasion.
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Tuberculosis
Smallpox
Typhus
Syphilis
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67
Armenia
32
Greece
33
Germany
195
Belarus
98
Republic of Ireland
51
the Netherlands
31
Australia
66
Kazakhstan
99
the United Kingdom
269
Russia
983
KG
47
Ukraine
498
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534
Italy
29
Poland
20310
Uzbekistan
38
India
319
Canada
61
the Philippines
35