The decades-long syphilis epidemic in the U.S. continues, as the CDC says the maternal syphilis rate spiked 28% between 2022 and 2024. The post Why maternal syphilis rates are spiking in the US ...

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

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 ...

Data released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a troubling trend: a sharp rise in the number of pregnant women diagnosed with syphilis, a sexually transmitted ...

The CDC is warning about "dire" levels of babies born with syphilis in the U.S., with a new analysis showing a tenfold increase from 2012 to 2022. The agency's data shows that 3,761 babies were born ...

Gonorrhea cases also declined in 2025, while chlamydia cases remained stable following COVID-era spikes in sexually ...

Syphilis is skyrocketing, but many people don't seem to care. That's a huge problem, and it's one of the reasons we ended up in this situation in the first place, experts say. Still, they advise ...

A rising number of syphilis infections in Arlington is driving a push to do better at testing and treating the sexually ...

Syphilis cases have been rising at an alarming rate in the United States, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As concerns for syphilis and sexually ...

Data published Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that rates of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States decreased in the early months of the Covid-19 ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Department of Health has put out a health advisory warning of an impending shortage in Bicillin, used primarily for treating syphilis. MDH put out this advisory on the ...

During our recent visits to a series of health facilities to discuss the alarming rise in sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates, clinicians expressed relief at finally discussing something other ...