For years, he tried to expose the Tuskegee syphilis study, but no one would listen. By Maggie Jones One afternoon in the ...

I've spent a good chunk of this year researching dark and occasionally disturbing facts suggested by both Redditors and ...

Paleogenomics has finally solved a question that has puzzled researchers for decades: Where did syphilis come from?

The implications of this research are manifold. The study paints a grim picture of colonialism’s unintended consequences.

New genomic research has confirmed that syphilis, a disease that ravaged Europe shortly after the return of Christopher ...

“We’ve known for some time that syphilis-like infections occurred in the Americas for millennia, but from the lesions alone it’s impossible to fully characterize the disease,” said Dr ...

Antibiotic-resistant strains exist for T. pallidum, too, meaning deadlier syphilis infections are re-emerging. That's why studies like this are relevant, said Majander, especially if we want to ...

In the spring of 1495, a mysterious illness broke out, interrupting the Italian campaign of Charles VIII of France. The […] ...

"We've known for some time that syphilis-like infections occurred in the Americas for millennia, but from the lesions alone it's impossible to fully characterize the disease", comments Casey ...

Accusatory finger-pointing about the scourge, syphilis, began almost immediately ... which could have placed the emergence of syphilis-like diseases before people arrived in the Americas ...

Syphilis was soon rampant across the Continent and beyond ... The sexually transmitted infection starts with painless ulcers on the genitals, before bringing rashes, flu-like fatigue, headaches and ...

Supporters of this theory point to skeletal remains showing syphilis-like bone lesions that date back to before 1492. Historical texts also describe illnesses with symptoms resembling syphilis, ...