A rising number of syphilis infections in Arlington is driving a push to do better at testing and treating the sexually transmitted infection. In the most recent data, from 2024, Arlington’s rate of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The US has recently added 53 more measles cases to the current total, largely fueled by outbreaks in 3 states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that the number of ...

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, ...

Objectives: The issue of biological false positives in syphilis diagnosis is gaining attention. However, limited focus exists on false positives in syphilis tests among younger populations. This study ...

ABSTRACT: Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a polymicrobial infection that originates from the upward spread of infecting organisms through the cervix and into the uterus, fallopian tubes, or ...

Cases of newborn syphilis in the United States have risen for the past 12 years, despite a slowdown in the past year or two, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...