Get this: scientists just found a 5,500-year-old skeleton in Colombia with the oldest DNA evidence of the bacteria behind syphilis. But plot twist—it’s a totally new strain! This find shakes up everything we thought we knew about where syphilis started. Forget Columbus—turns out these bugs were already mixing it up in the Americas thousands of years before. The real origin story of syphilis just got way juicier (and way older). #History #history #science