After a dramatic rise over the past few years, local syphilis cases are finally on the decline. Between 2019 and 2024, ...

The latest report finds that the maternal syphilis rate increased 16% from 2022 to 2023 and an additional 10% from 2023 to ...

The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...

A 5,500-year-old genome of Treponema pallidum recovered from Colombia has revealed that syphilis-causing bacteria circulated in the Americas millennia before agriculture, undermining the ...

Ancient DNA from a Colombian hunter-gatherer reveals a 5,500-year-old infection, rewriting what we know about syphilis and ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from the Americas has yielded the oldest genetic evidence yet of a bacterium closely related to the ...

Evidence of Treponema bacteria in a prehistoric hunter-gatherer proves the pathogen was endemic to the Americas earlier than ...

Scientists recover DNA from a 5,500-year-old burial in Colombia, revealing ancient syphilis-related bacteria and reshaping disease history.

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Syphilis has long played a role in human history: some think that notable figures like Dracula author Bram Stoker and Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin had the disease. And scientists know that the ...

From a 5,500-year-old human shinbone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, ...