Background: More laboratories are screening for syphilis with automated treponemal immunoassays. We compared direct costs and downstream consequences when a local public health laboratory switches ...

Health officials issued a new warning against syphilis, saying the sexually transmitted disease is spreading across Japan at the fastest pace in decades. As of May 21, there were 5,453 cases reported ...

TOKYO -- Local governments in Japan are urging caution and calling for early testing due to a rapid rise in syphilis, with new infections on pace with last year's record number of cases.

Remains of people who lived on the eastern coast of South America nearly 2,000 years ago have yielded the oldest known evidence for the family of microorganisms that cause syphilis 1. The origins of ...

The number of syphilis cases in the U.S. are on the rise. According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cases increased by nearly 80% to more than 207,000 between 2018 ...

Dr. Park is a professor of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Nobody should be dying of syphilis in 2024. That’s the credo of Elizabeth Glaser, a public ...

The Japanese word for syphilis, "baidoku," literally translates as "plum poison." It was so named from the chancres (painless ulcerations) that appear on the skin in the disease’s primary stage, which ...

TOKYO -- Cases of syphilis in Japan reached a record 13,251 this year, coinciding with a sharp increase in congenital syphilis, which is transmitted from a pregnant woman to her unborn child. The ...

This 1966 microscope photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a tissue sample with the presence of numerous, corkscrew-shaped, darkly-stained, Treponema pallidum ...

Riley Moser is a digital producer who covers breaking news and feature stories for CBS Minnesota. Riley started her career at CBS Minnesota in June 2022 and earned an honorable mention for sports ...