Syphilis spreads primarily through vaginal, anal or oral sex, Shen explains. Condoms greatly reduce risk, but they do not fully eliminate it because the bacteria can still enter through tiny breaks in ...

Syphilis — an illness that’s been around for centuries, afflicting monarchs, artists and regular folk alike — is on the rise in the U.S. Rates of the sexually transmitted disease are climbing ...

Doctors are seeing more patients with unusual vision and eye symptoms due to the sexually transmitted infection Amid the current syphilis “epidemic” in the U.S., doctors are seeing more patients with ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted market authorization to the first at-home syphilis test amid a decades-long rise of cases in the U.S. The test, which detects syphilis antibodies in ...

In the study, the highest risk of maternal syphilis was found in Black mothers, women aged 24 and under, unmarried women, and ...

Changes in sexual practice and condom use may also lie behind the spike in syphilis cases (Credit: Getty Images) Syphilis is one of the oldest known sexually transmitted infections. Once thought to be ...

Congenital syphilis has become more than ten times as common over the past decade, the C.D.C. reported. “The situation is dire,” said one expert. By Apoorva Mandavilli The rise in sexually transmitted ...

Could Donald Trump have tertiary stage syphilis? Instagram user @epistemiccrisis, a physical therapist, explores possible ...

University of Alberta-led research released today reports that new cases of syphilis dropped in Alberta following the introduction of rapid ...