Syphilis rates decline in Algoma after years of rapid increases

Between 2019 and 2024, syphilis infections in the Algoma region rocketed past provincial averages, climbing higher and higher ...
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Scientists Find Lost Form Of Syphilis Bacteria In 5,500-Year-Old Remains

Ancient DNA from a Colombian hunter-gatherer reveals a 5,500-year-old infection, rewriting what we know about syphilis and ...
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New discovery pushes the history of syphilis-like diseases back by 3,000 years and reveals a never-before-seen subspecies

We often tell ourselves a comforting story about the history of disease: it’s the price of civilization. For most of human ...

5,500-year-old DNA shows syphilis was rooted in the Americas, before Columbus

From a 5,500-year-old human shinbone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, providing the oldest evidence yet that the disease has ancient roots in the ...

5,500-year-old skeleton yields oldest evidence yet of syphilis-related bacteria

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...