> 1) It has been widely reported that humans initially
> contracted syphilis from sheep. Oog. That was in the
> so-called New World.
Perhaps then it was a guilty traveller from the New World who wrote the following graffiti in a New Zealand airport toilet:
New Zealand - where men are men, and sheep are nervous.
Bill Bill Rosenberg, w.rosenberg at csc.canterbury.ac.nz