Newsfront
February, 1988
Patient ZeroIndianapolis--The skeleton of an 11,500-year-old bear is undermining the idea that syphilis arrived in the Old World after Columbus' crew had slept with infected Indians in the New World. Perhaps the Indians weren't to blame after all. Studying the remains of a bear excavated on an Indiana farm, researchers found evidence that the animal may have been infected with syphilis. The discovery does not "explain how a bear gets syphilis," one of the doctors said, "and the be...
