According to the Centers for Disease Control, the earliest warning signs of the primary stage of syphilis appear as sores at the location where the infection entered the body, usually in ...

The sexually transmitted infection can lead to serious health problems if left untreated. Syphilis cases skyrocketed in the U.S. as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's STD prevention ...

There are four stages of syphilis, each with specific symptoms. In the primary stage, a person may develop sores at the site of infection, typically on the genitals, anus or mouth. The secondary ...

The U.S. is seeing a resurgence in syphilis, a disease once almost completely eliminated in the country. The increase in drug use and the lack of sufficient medical care are contributing to the ...

Syphilis is a bacterial infection that is usually spread through sexual contact, according to the Mayo Clinic, and usually presents as painless sores that spread the disease. Because the sores don ...

Syphilis patients may develop sores on their genitals and mouths in a few weeks after infection, followed by rashes on their palms and other parts of the body. The disease can cause serious health ...

Residents of the London borough has the highest rates in England for not one, but three, major STIs, with more cases of ...

When Dr. Susan Girois was training as a physician in the 1990s, she doesn’t remember diagnosing a single case of syphilis. Today, four or five patients a week regularly appear at a clinic run by ...

A sudden increase in syphilis infections in Japan has prompted experts to call for better sex education and more testing. Around 13,000 cases of the sexually transmitted disease (STD) have been ...

It didn't do much for the sleeping sickness microbe, but it seemed to kill another (recently discovered) microbe, the one which causes syphilis. At that time, syphilis was a disabling and ...