Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "1495 Syphilis Outbreak: The Deadly Disease That Swept Across Europe | The Syphilis Enigma | Timeline" video.

For me, the most amazing info was near the end, when it said that syphilis was most harmless when it was a "tribal" disease, contacted very commonly by children through skin-to-skin contact.And that that actually immunised them from the more severe venereal form of the disease. 😮
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Yes, Astounding - and terrible. 😏 Thank goodness for modern hygiene and for penicillin!!👍
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@TheCurlyclub In primitive societies where they caught it in childhood!!
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@FFM0594 Thought you could catch it from the sores/chancres??
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@zeebest1004 In primitive societies where you caught it that way in childhood.
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@zeebest1004 You really need to read what the popular Swedish philosopher Jostein Gaarder (Sophie's World was his bestseller) says about the difference between Indo-European cultures (visually based) and Semitic cultures (aurally based). 🙂
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@amethyst1826 Germs must be dead after all those centuries!! 😏 Some people on here are saying that those skeletons are tubercular. I know that tuberculosis, another bacterial disease, can affect bones...
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@FFM0594 Well then the expert in the video is daft. This video is bass-ackwards anyway bcos it gives the most important info at the end. It does say it can be transmitted via skin though...
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@HappyBeezerStudios Another possibility!
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