Salt Lake County women are being diagnosed with syphilis at “alarming” rates, the county’s health department announced Thursday. From 2018 to 2022, the county saw an 800% increase in syphilis cases ...

Only five years after syphilis had apparently been conquered in the U.S. and was rapidly declining elsewhere, “the great pox” is making an unexpected comeback. For the past two weeks agitated experts ...

Why has this asymptomatic man in his 60s with an unremarkable medical history suddenly developed gray-white plaque on his soft palate? That's the question facing Jianjun Qiao, MD, PhD, of Zhejiang ...

When doctors first announced (in 1943) that penicillin would remove all signs of early syphilis in eight days, many a layman concluded that penicillin was a sure syphilis cure. But syphilologists, ...

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the spirochete bacterium. The long-reported increase in congenital syphilis is "completely preventable ... It’s unacceptable,” on physician said.

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new study that found women giving birth in the U.S. are three times more likely to have syphilis today than they were approximately ...

That the arrival of Europeans in the New World in 1492 led to a massive shift in the ecological landscape and has been widely accepted for the past 50 years. Suddenly a trans-Atlantic exchange — maize ...

Christopher Columbus : the first European syphilitic? -- The revenge of the Americas -- A brief history of the spirochete -- Shedding light on the poison of the darkness -- From poisonous cures to ...