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

Scholars have long debated the origins of syphilis. The outbreak in the late 15th century took place shortly after Columbus ...

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

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

For centuries, scientists have disputed the origins of syphilis. A new study of ancient DNA supports an American origin for ...

When a mysterious flesh-rotting disease broke out in Europe in 1495, two years after Christopher Columbus returned from the ...

In spring 1495, the Italian campaign of Charles VIII of France was interrupted by an intense outbreak of an apparently ...

New research on ancient DNA traces syphilis origins to the Americas, shedding light on the 15th-century outbreak in Europe.

Left unattended, syphilis can eventually start to cause more severe permanent problems. "If you don't get treated and it keeps going, latent syphilis, especially if you have it for years ...

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Standard treatment for primary or early latent syphilis: benzathine penicillin* G 2.4 mU IM x 1 dose; For secondary syphilis and for women with primary syphilis in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy ...

Again, the signs and symptoms of secondary syphilis resolve spontaneously without treatment, and the infection then enters the latent phase. Figure 2. Primary lesion of syphilis. Figure courtesy ...