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Syphilis. Columbus's sailors brought it back from the Americas and it spread like wildfire through Europe during the sixteenth century. Henry VIII is believed to have died from it, and to have transmitted it to his son Edward VI who also died from it. Shakespeare's plays are full of references to it.

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