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 previously believed.

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

WASHINGTON • Public health officials grappling with record-high syphilis rates around the nation have pinpointed what appears to be a major risk factor: drug use. "Two major public health issues are ...

This 1966 microscope photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a tissue sample with the presence of numerous, corkscrew-shaped, darkly-stained, Treponema pallidum ...

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Learn how ancient DNA from human remains revealed that syphilis circulated in the Americas thousands of years earlier than ...

A one-dose treatment plan could help with ongoing drug shortages and limit the development of antibiotic resistance THURSDAY, Sept. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A single dose of penicillin works just as ...

As communicable disease bureau chief at the New Mexico Department of Health, Gans is responsible for tracking and responding to conditions spreading in the state’s population. But syphilis poses a ...

A shorter run of penicillin treatment can clear up syphilis, clinical trial results show One dose of benzathine penicillin G worked as well as the usual three-dose regimen to treat early syphilis A ...