Valentine’s Day has come and gone, and the weeks that follow are busy days for infectious disease doctors like me. Roses, chocolates, and hot dates give ...

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Treponema pallidum is a spiral-shaped bacterium that currently exists in three closely related forms, one of which causes syphilis. Robert Brook / Science Photo Library via Getty Images The origins of ...

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From a 5,500-year-old human shinbone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, providing the oldest evidence yet that the disease has ancient roots in the ...

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 ...

Researchers have found that a single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G (BPG) successfully treated early syphilis just as well as the three-injection regimen used by many clinicians ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If “syphilis” sounds to you like an illness people got in another century, you’re not alone. For decades, the infection was widely ...

Syphilis cases caused by Treponema pallidum are rising in Germany, across Europe, and worldwide, fuelling a resurgence of ocular disease. Once largely confined to patients with HIV, this condition is ...

In 2024, U.S. cases of newborn syphilis increased for the 12th consecutive year, but the rate of growth is slowing, according to CDC data published Sept. 24. The U.S. recorded 3,941 newborn syphilis ...