A man went to the emergency room after being in and out of hospitals for a month, and doctors found a surprising explanation ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases. This article is more than 3 years old. A patient with papulosquamous ...

You could be forgiven for not knowing much about syphilis. The sexually transmitted infection was all but eliminated in the mid-'90s. But its incidence has been rising almost every year since 2000, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Edward Hook — director of the STD Control Program for the Jefferson County Department of Health — spoke to PEOPLE to explain ...

Syphilis cases have soared to their highest level in more than seven decades, according to disturbing new data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A staggering 207,000 syphilis ...

Not so long ago, the most likely place you would have encountered syphilis was in a history book, but public health officials ...

Syphilis is essentially a bacterial infection. It is a sexually transmitted infection that spreads via unprotected sex with an infected person. Syphilis is caused by bacteria called Treponema pallidum ...

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 ...

Syphilis is surging in the U.S., reaching the highest numbers in nearly 75 years. Cases of the sexually transmitted disease (STD) rose 10% in 2022, reaching 203,500. The numbers have increased 68% ...

Syphilis is making a comeback in the United States. Both congenital syphilis, which affects babies born to mothers with the disease, and adult cases caused by sexual transmission, are on the rise.

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 ...

Dr. Edward Hook — director of the STD Control Program for the Jefferson County Department of Health — spoke to PEOPLE to explain the recent uptick in the sexually transmitted infection Vanessa Etienne ...