Doctors in Belgium met with a real head-scratcher when an 83-year-old married man came in with a rare form of secondary ...

The bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, likely uses a single gene to escape the immune system, research from UW Medicine in Seattle suggests. The finding may help explain how syphilis ...

From 2018 and 2022, cases skyrocketed by nearly 80%, totaling more than 207,000. Cases of syphilis have hit the highest rate of new infections since the 1950s, according to a new report from the ...

Far from the devastating scourge it once was, syphilis is now relatively uncommon in most of the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control, most cases of the disease — which affected ...

Shuffling of DNA in a single gene might be why the syphilis bacteria can evade the immune system. The change alters a protein on its cell surface to create a distraction. People can become re-infected ...

Eye syphilis is a manifestation of syphilis. Sometimes, it is the first sign of infection. It can affect almost any part of the eye and resemble a range of other eye diseases. Common symptoms of eye ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Syphilis infections quadrupled among Iowa women between 2019 and 2022, and the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services says it’s still seeing that trend in 2024. Iowa ...

The program is a collaboration between the Alaska Department of Corrections and the state’s health department.

Syphilis is on the rise worldwide, and it's killing infants. The disease is a leading cause of stillbirth worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, in a condition called congenital ...

2,000-year-old bones add evidence against the idea Columbus brought syphilis to Europe. A European outbreak of the STI in the late 1400s was long blamed on the conquistadors. But DNA analysis doesn't ...

In the last days of the 1400s, a terrible epidemic swept through Europe. Men and women spiked sudden fevers. Their joints ached, and they broke out in rashes that ripened into bursting boils. Ulcers ...