1) occurred during this period, due to 2 factors: (1) an increase in the number of actual cases and (2) revised reporting guidelines that broadened the definition of congenital syphilis in 1989 so ...

Accusatory finger-pointing about the scourge, syphilis, began almost immediately. The Italians called it “the French disease”; the French called it “the Neapolitan disease”; the Russians ...

A new study published in the journal Nature provides compelling evidence that syphilis originated in the Americas and spread globally through European colonization, challenging long-held ...