[Aztlan] New to Old World Illness?

Mario F. Malo troycabo at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 29 18:28:02 CST 2008


The Michael Wood book Conquistadors states that Syphilis was a New World disease brought back to Europe by the Conquistadors, what other illnesses from the New World to the Old were brought back?  Smallpox, malaria, measles and many other sexually transmitted diseases were among the bequests of the Old to the New.   Mario F. Malo
       
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