coffeym
What infectious diseases were involved in the Columbian Exchange?
Columbian Exchange
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bulldog1
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Diseases that traveled from the Old World to the New included bubonic plague, chicken pox, and scarlet fever.
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edimonk
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The New World explorers introduced syphilis and yaws to the Old World when they returned. The first cases of European syphilis were in Italy in the early 1500s.