The decades-long syphilis epidemic in the U.S. continues, as the CDC says the maternal syphilis rate spiked 28% between 2022 ...

After decades of decline, syphilis cases are on the rise again, hitting their highest levels since the early 1960s. Though the vast majority of syphilis cases are preventable, rates surged nearly 80% ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

Syphilis cases have surged worldwide, leaving public health officials scrounging for ways to stop the spread. Now, a large, collaborative study of syphilis genetics from four continents has found ...

In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that a single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G (BPG) successfully treated early syphilis just as well as the ...

The study charted syphilis progression in unknowing Black men. Lillie Tyson Head and her daughter, Carmen Head Thornton, have reason to be skeptical about the COVID-19 vaccine. After all, it was ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. syphilis epidemic slowed dramatically last year, gonorrhea cases fell and chlamydia cases remained below prepandemic levels, according to federal data released Tuesday. Last ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Rates of syphilis are skyrocketing among Minnesotans who are pregnant (“maternal ...

Syphilis is surging in the United States, but cases of chlamydia have leveled off and gonorrhea has declined, according to the latest sexually transmitted infections surveillance report. The Centers ...