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Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Peter Lewis Allen

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Peter Lewis Allen
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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