Guyana Amerindians & the syphilis of Christopher Colombus & crew – theorising with big whitey

big whitey is always reconstructing and rewriting history as he has the biggest guns and the fairest skin on them all. his latest versions of lies and deceit is that yaws found on TWO!! Amerindians in Guyana is somehow related to Christopher Colombus & crew gift of syphilis. no word on why Colombus & crew were raping the Amerindians. we’ll make no further comments. read on and theorise with big whitey

Nature News – Syphilis: spoil of the New World?
Genetic study blames Columbus for bringing syphilis to Europe.
Rachel Courtland
For more than 500 years, Christopher Columbus has been alternately blamed and exonerated for bringing syphilis to Europe. Now, a genetic analysis of the disease-causing bacteria shows that today’s syphilis is a close cousin to the South American tropical disease yaws, suggesting that the malady has its roots in the Americas.
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Columbus blamed for spread of syphilis
* 13:15 15 January 2008
* NewScientist.com news service
* Debora MacKenzie
Syphilis really did come from the Americas, suggests a new study.
There has been a long-running row over from where the dreaded disease came. But new genetic data from deep in the jungles of Guyana suggests that while other forms of this bacterium have plagued humans since early in our evolution, it emerged as venereal syphilis only when carried back to Europe by Columbus and his crew.

Syphilis
Montezuma’s revenge
Jan 17th 2008
From The Economist print edition
Uncovering the origin of syphilis
IT WAS called the “French disease” by the Italians and the “Italian disease” by the French. In the Netherlands it was assumed to be Spanish; in Russia, Polish. The Turks thought it was a Christian affliction. The Tahitians thought it came from Britain. According to Kristin Harper of Emory University in Georgia, they were all wrong. Syphilis, the illness with so many suspected origins, actually came from the New World. In other words, Columbus brought back much more than knowledge of an unsuspected continent from his travels.
The two Guyanese samples of yaws were a crucial component of this study, because they appeared to be the closest relatives of venereal syphilis and were genetically different from Old World species of yaws. Indeed, critics of the study reckon Dr Harper is relying too much on them, since the differences in question may be the result of local natural selection rather than the type of random mutation that this sort of analysis depends on. She, though, thinks the evidence suggests that an ancestral disease resembling yaws first arose in the Old World as a non-venereal infection. It spread to the Middle East and eastern Europe, and then on to the Americas in the form of New World yaws when humans crossed the Bering strait some 13,000 years ago. Finally, syphilis was introduced back into the Old World as a result of European exploration.
It is possible that when a bug that came from the moist, tropical New World arrived in the cooler climes of Europe it survived by adapting to the nearest thing European man (and woman) has to a tropical environment: the genitals. Thus freed from external constraint, it used the French, the Italians, the Dutch, the Spaniards, the Russians, the Poles, the Turks, the Tahitians and even the British to become the global success that it is today.

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