A hunter-gatherer who died in what is now Colombia more than 5,000 years ago carried a secret in their bones. Scientists analyzing the remains recently discovered DNA from an ancient form of the ...
Forty-two babies in Australia died from congenital syphilis between 2011 and 2025, with the outbreak driving health workers into communities to raise awareness of the old-world disease.
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 ...
An image from an electron microscope of Treponema pallidum, the bacteria that causes syphilis. In 2022, the number of reported cases of syphilis in the United States was the highest it has been since ...
The idea that Christopher Colombus brought back syphilis from the New World might be completely wrong. A long-standing hypothesis held that Spanish conquistadors had picked up the sexually-transmitted ...
As syphilis cases surge throughout the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first diagnostic at-home test to spot the bacterial disease. There's a pressing need ...
Researchers have found that a single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G (BPG) successfully treated early syphilis just as well as the three-injection regimen used by many clinicians ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From 2018 and 2022, cases skyrocketed by nearly 80%, totaling more than 207,000. From 2018 and 2022, cases skyrocketed by nearly ...
Cases of a devastating STI are on the rise and newborns are at high risk for deadly complications. The deadly and entirely ...
The U.S. has a big syphilis problem on its hands. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that reported cases of the sexually transmitted infection once again climbed in ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved the first over-the-counter test to detect syphilis antibodies in human blood. The “First To Know Syphilis Test” is produced by the ...
The United States has a shortage of the only first-line medication recommended for pregnant women with syphilis to prevent ...