Live Science on MSN

5,500-year-old human skeleton discovered in Colombia holds the oldest evidence yet that syphilis came from the Americas

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...
ZME Science

New Discovery Pushes the History of Syphilis-like Diseases Back by 3,000 Years and Reveals a Never-before-seen Subspecies

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...