Here’s a gripping conversation starter to bring up over your family’s Thanksgiving feast this year: Health officials in Michigan have identified an alarming cluster of syphilis infections in women’s ...

The U.S. syphilis rate rose for the seventh straight year in 2007, driven by a continued surge in cases among homosexual and bisexual men, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on ...

This 1975 microscope image made available by the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria magnified 200X. Washington saw more cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea ...

Racism that fueled the syphilis study still permeates the U.S. health care system, causing disparities in access to medical ...

Congenital syphilis (CS) is a disease that happens when a baby gets syphilis from their mother. “Congenital” means that the infection exists at birth. This can happen if you have syphilis during your ...

Vancouver-area syphilis rates are at epidemic proportions, health officials say, and they're urging gay and bisexual men to get tested immediately. Vancouver Coastal Health, the B.C. Centre for ...

Manitoba is on track to have as many newborns infected with syphilis this year as the entire country did in 2019. The province had recorded 30 cases of congenital syphilis in babies as of Aug. 17, ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - New genetic evidence supports the theory that Christopher Columbus brought syphilis to Europe from the New World, U.S. researchers said Monday, reviving a centuries-old debate ...