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
answers
Pakistan
67
Armenia
32
Greece
31
Germany
186
Belarus
94
Republic of Ireland
50
Australia
66
Kazakhstan
97
the United Kingdom
266
Russia
917
KG
46
France
29
Ukraine
485
the United States
522
Italy
29
Poland
20217
Uzbekistan
36
India
318
Canada
60
the Philippines
35