Ancient skeleton evidence suggests congenital infection doesn’t prove syphilis, pointing instead to multiple treponemal ...

Researchers have for decades believed that of these diseases, only syphilis could be transmitted congenitally, lending to the ...

Researchers at the Universities of Basel and Zurich have discovered the genetic material of the pathogen Treponema pallidum in the bones of people who died in Brazil 2,000 years ago. This is the ...

A cache of documents related to the Tuskegee syphilis study — a 40-year experiment that tracked infected Black men without treating them — has been digitized for public use, the National Library of ...

Researchers have recovered ancient DNA containing bacteria related to syphilis — potentially pushing the known history of the disease back by more than 3,000 years, according to their study. The ...

A newly sequenced genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, highlights the deep antiquity of treponemal diseases in the Americas. The findings, based on a 5,500-year-old ...

The CDC Foundation has introduced a scholarship initiative designed for the descendants of the Black men who were subjects of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. On Feb. 7, the CDC Foundation introduced a ...

A cache of documents related to the Tuskegee syphilis study - a 40-year experiment that tracked infected Black men without treating them - has now been digitized for public use, the National Library ...