“Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.” WorldWayDiseaseDramaticNew WorldVoyagesSailorColumbusSeverityPox Author:Peter Lewis Allen
“Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.” KindAmericaMoralModernDiseaseEuropeAidsPanicHivProvokedSyphilis Author:Peter Lewis Allen