Fraser Health has launched a public awareness campaign encouraging pregnant people and people with syphilis symptoms to get ...

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

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

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

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

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

But there's evidence that 15th-century colonialists spread Syphilis worldwide. Syphilis and Christopher Columbus have more in common than you might think. Both touched down on new continents and ...

Syphilis was soon rampant across the Continent ... starts with painless ulcers on the genitals, before bringing rashes, flu-like fatigue, headaches and eventually foul-smelling oozing pustules.

This documented epidemic is now interpreted to be the first historical account of syphilis. The origin of syphilis is the subject of a decades-long debate. The late 15th century outbreak occurred ...

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 ...

Accusatory finger-pointing about the scourge, syphilis, began almost immediately. The Italians called it “the French disease”; the French called it “the Neapolitan disease”; the Russians ...

The classic features of secondary syphilis are skin rash (generalized, with prominence on the palms and soles), lymphadenopathy, and mucous membrane involvement with mucous patches or condylomata ...