The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new database that organization officials hope will help improve ...

Not so long ago, the most likely place you would have encountered syphilis was in a history book, but public health officials ...

The Middlesex-London Health Unit issued a warning Thursday to anyone participating in high-risk sexual behaviour to get checked after two people in the city tested positive for syphilis. One ...

It has infected thousands of Aussies in the last decade, and killed dozens of infants.

This is the damage late-stage syphilis can do to bones. The Victorian-era sexually transmitted infection is preventable and curable, so why are infection rates rising in Australia? Turning over old ...

Scientists studying the remains of an individual buried 5,500 years ago in Colombia discovered a previously unknown strain of the bacterium that causes syphilis. Using statistical analysis, the team ...

A newly sequenced genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, highlights the deep antiquity of treponemal diseases in the Americas. The findings, based on a 5,500-year-old ...

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 ...

Syphilis can be a tricky disease to diagnose—especially when a patient may not be sharing the whole story. Doctors in Belgium met with a real head-scratcher when an 83-year-old married man came in ...