Here’s a gripping conversation starter to bring up over your family’s Thanksgiving feast this year: Health officials in Michigan have identified an alarming cluster of syphilis infections in women’s ...

Venus Johnson entered the world clinging to life. She stopped breathing shortly after delivery, and doctors massaged her tiny chest and held her upside down to clear her lungs of thick mucus, the ...

Experts say the spread of syphilis is a "health disaster and a tragedy" as the disease spreads through Australia's most ...

Syphilis rates jumped 26 percent last year — reaching the highest number of cases since the Truman administration — amid a broader rise in sexually transmitted infections that worsened considerably ...

Once on the path to eliminating syphilis, the United States has reversed course, with cases of the infectious disease surging. The crisis is hitting pregnant people and babies especially hard. The ...

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 ...

The U.S. syphilis rate rose for the seventh straight year in 2007, driven by a continued surge in cases among homosexual and bisexual men, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on ...

Vancouver-area syphilis rates are at epidemic proportions, health officials say, and they're urging gay and bisexual men to get tested immediately. Vancouver Coastal Health, the B.C. Centre for ...