History has suggested that syphilis is a disease of early times. The disease might have been prevalent among the indigenous peoples of the Americas before Europeans travelled to and from the New World ...

From the beginning, syphilis has been a deeply stigmatized, shameful disease. A letter written in June 1495 by an Italian doctor named Nicolò Squillaci contains one of the first written mentions of ...

In the last days of the 1400s, a terrible epidemic swept through Europe. Men and women spiked sudden fevers. Their joints ached, and they broke out in rashes that ripened into bursting boils. Ulcers ...

Syphilis is a bacterial infection. It’s also a common type of sexually transmitted infection (STI). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 115,000 new cases of ...

The recent book The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration is not to be leafed through lightly. The volume reproduces 19 th-century images from the Wellcome Library’s collection of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Syphilis, an STI caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum, has re-emerged as a major public health threat in ...

Secondary syphilis is the second stage of untreated syphilis. A non-itchy rash, sore throat, fatigue, joint pain, fever, and wart-like patches are possible symptoms. If you don’t get treatment for the ...

Data are from the National Center for STD Control in Nanjing, China. Although syphilis infection may be asymptomatic and difficult to diagnose without widespread screening, the public health impact of ...