Infections caused by the treponema pallidum subspecies endemicum are described as bejel, an endemic treponematosis. In Europe, bejel was eradicated in the twentieth century, though it was widespread ...

Rates of syphilis infection, once hampered by the discovery of penicillin, have been rising in recent years. Researchers recently linked the increase in modern syphilis cases to a pandemic, antibiotic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An array of human bones shown partially buried in the ground, with two bones highlighted in yellow. People living on the coast of ...

Syphilis existed in medieval Europe, and it caused the death of England’s King Edward IV. That’s the surprising argument of Smith College scholar Marylynn Salmon, just published in The Medieval Globe, ...

Remains of people who lived on the eastern coast of South America nearly 2,000 years ago have yielded the oldest known evidence for the family of microorganisms that cause syphilis. The origins of ...

An isolated burial site in far eastern Tennessee that was excavated in the 1970s has recently been reexamined by archaeologists interested in the origin and evolution of treponemal diseases, including ...