Scientists are reconsidering an ancient disease and challenging some of the basic assumptions archaeologists use to study past infections.

DENVER -- An estimated one in 12 U.S. adolescents with early syphilis also have HIV in a national surveillance sample, but the burden of co-occurring syphilis and HIV in teens is decreasing, according ...

Researchers have recovered ancient DNA containing bacteria related to syphilis — potentially pushing the known history of the disease back by more than 3,000 years, according to their study. The ...

When King Charles VIII of France occupied Naples in 1495, his army of nearly 20,000 mercenaries became the ground zero of the “Great Pox,” the first massive venereal syphilis pandemic in Europe, which ...

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From a 5,500-year-old human shinbone, 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 ...

Traces of a bacterium related to syphilis have been found in a bone from a person who lived in the mountains of Colombia over 5000 years ago. The discovery shows that this group of corkscrew-shaped ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was present in the Americas at least 3,000 years earlier than previously ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four treponemal diseases, including syphilis—from 5,500-year-old human remains in ...

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 The first recorded venereal ...

If “syphilis” sounds to you like an illness people got in another century, you’re not alone. For decades, the infection was widely considered a disease of the past. But after years of decline, ...