The origin story of syphilis goes back far longer than we thought

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...
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Ancient find rewrites 3,000 years of syphilis-like disease history

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from the Americas has yielded the oldest genetic evidence yet of a bacterium closely related to the ...
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Anthropologists recover DNA of syphilis-causing bacterium relative from 5,500-year-old human remains, the earliest ever found

The origins of syphilis, a disfiguring disease first recorded when outbreaks swept across Europe in the late 1400s, have remained mysterious for centuries. Scientists have debated whether the ...

Ancient DNA Reveals Twisted Roots of Syphilis Go Back 5,500 Years

The discovery, led by evolutionary genomics researcher Davide Bozzi, pushes back the evidence for treponemal diseases, as ...

Ancient bacterium’s genome could rewrite the history of syphilis

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 ...
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Syphilis in the U.S was once nearly eradicated. Here’s why it’s surging again

The number of syphilis cases in the United States is the highest it’s been since the 1950s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Philip Chan, chief medical officer for Open ...