An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Analysis of a shin bone found in a rock cave in Colombia suggests the sexually transmitted disease is much older than ...

The first known outbreak of syphilis in Europe began at the turn of the 16th century, but on the distant continent of South ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years.

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Syphilis is skyrocketing, but many people don't seem to care. That's a huge problem, and it's one of the reasons we ended up in this situation in the first place, experts say. Still, they advise ...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is advising the public that cases of syphilis are increasing in Barbados and is urging ...

The CDC is warning about "dire" levels of babies born with syphilis in the U.S., with a new analysis showing a tenfold increase from 2012 to 2022. The agency's data shows that 3,761 babies were born ...

During our recent visits to a series of health facilities to discuss the alarming rise in sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates, clinicians expressed relief at finally discussing something other ...

Health authorities in Barbados are reporting an increase in cases of syphilis in the country and are urging people to take ...