The outbreak of a mysterious disease ravaged Europe in the late 15th century, shortly after Christopher Columbus and his crew returned from the Americas. Experts have debated for centuries where this ...

From a 5,500-year-old human shin bone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, providing the oldest evidence yet that the disease has ancient roots in the ...

IN recent times, the relevance of syphilis has reasserted itself so much that the Government has been giving its prevalence a degree of priority, with ...

A man went to the emergency room after being in and out of hospitals for a month, and doctors found a surprising explanation ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton has yielded the oldest known genome of the bacterium behind syphilis, revealing a lineage unlike any circulating today. That deep divergence pushes the history of these ...

Rapid testing items for syphilis (bottom right); a colorized electron micrograph of Treponema pallidum, the bacteria that cause syphilis (spiral-shaped bacteria have been highlighted in pink) (center) ...