The findings, announced in a Jan. 22 press release, are the result of a study of 5,500-year-old human remains in Sabana de ...

The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its evolutionary history ...

Analysis of a shin bone found in a rock cave in Colombia suggests the sexually transmitted disease is much older than previously believed.

What began as a study of human population history quickly evolved into a groundbreaking ...

Ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old skeleton in Colombia reveals the oldest genome of "Treponema pallidum" yet, sharpening ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first recorded venereal syphilis outbreak occurred in 15th-century Europe, where it supposedly had been brought over by ...

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 ...

When King Charles VIII of France occupied Naples in 1495, his army of nearly 20,000 mercenaries became the ground zero of the “Great Pox,” the first massive venereal syphilis pandemic in Europe, which ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought The first recorded venereal ...

Bill Jenkins had already started a promising career in public health in the mid-1960s when he learned about one of the darkest chapters in American medical history: the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

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 ...