There are a number of primary and secondary prevention strategies that have or could be used to control the current epidemics of infectious syphilis affecting MSM communities across the world, as ...

The public health workforce tasked with fighting what has been a long-losing battle against sexually-transmitted infections now finds itself confronted with a new, unfamiliar outlook: hope. After ...

To be clear, also, there’s pretty good evidence for weakened immune systems being at least a major factor, given shingles risk among the immunosuppressed ...

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 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 ...