Malignant Spirochaetes

[drhoz]

Time for a long-overdue educational post, and guess what, it's a revolting parasite. Who'd a-thunk it?

Word Of The Day : syphilis - sexually transmitted disease with diverse symptoms, caused by the spirochaete Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum(Why am I covering this one anyway? It's a biologically complex disease, there's some interesting

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[brockulfsen]

There was a documentary on TV a few years back where an Australian archeologist found the remains of a syphilitic child in an Ancient Greek context, then went "digging" in the literature and found that skeletal signs of syphilis had been used to identify interments as modern many times in the past on the assumption it had arrived in Europe in modern times.

[drhoz]

*nods* that's one of the reasons that the origins of syphilis has been under long debate

[consortofvenus]

That disease gets around. Damn.