Syphilis-linked bacteria circulated in the Americas thousands of years before Columbus: study

Ancient DNA from 5,500-year-old remains in Colombia reveals syphilis-related bacteria existed some 3,000 years earlier than ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Anthropologists Recover DNA of Syphilis-Causing Bacterium Relative From 5,500-Year-Old Human Remains, the Earliest Ever Found

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

The origin story of syphilis goes back far longer than we thought

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

5,550-year-old Colombian man carries world’s oldest syphilis-related bacteria, study finds

What began as a study of human population history quickly evolved into a groundbreaking ...
Study Finds on MSN

Scientists Find Lost Form Of Syphilis Bacteria In 5,500-Year-Old Remains

In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...
al.com

Descendants of Tuskegee syphilis experiment can apply for $5 million in scholarships

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation has pledged to give $5 million in scholarships for descendants of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in which more than 600 Black men infected ...
The Spokesman-Review

Records from notorious Tuskegee syphilis study now available online

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 ...