BAD DISEASES MAKE BAD NEIGHBORS
A Hilarious Map Showing What People Used To Call Syphilis (Hint: After Whatever Country They Hated The Most)
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Where did syphilis come from? Well, if you asked a Frenchman about the disease back in the day, he'd tell you it was the Italian Disease — while an Italian would insist it was actually the French Disease (as would a Spaniard). Meanwhile, the Portuguese had a pretty good idea who was to blame for the affliction: the Spanish.
And so it went on and on, as illustrated by this hilarious map showing what syphilis was called before it was known as "syphilis":
Credit goes to Scotland for avoiding the hate and coming up with a much, much more creative name.
[Via Reddit]