In the last days of the 1400s, a terrible epidemic swept through Europe. Men and women spiked sudden fevers. Their joints ached, and they broke out in rashes that ripened into bursting boils. Ulcers ...

In spring 1495, the Italian campaign of Charles VIII of France was interrupted by an intense outbreak of an apparently unknown illness – a disease of high mortality that quickly engulfed the whole of ...

Syphilis and Christopher Columbus have more in common than you might think. Both touched down on new continents and colonized local inhabitants at the end of the 15th century: Columbus the indigenous ...

Carmen H. Logie, Ying Wang, Ashley Lacombe-Duncan, Uzma Ahmed, Nicolette Jones, Ava Neil, Tyrone Ellis, Kandasi Levermore, Annecka Marshall and Peter A. Newman Background: Globally, social ...

American pharmaceutical companies exploit poor and ignorant in Third World. Aug. 30, 2011— -- A commission set up last year by President Barack Obama has revealed that 83 Guatemalans died in U.S.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ischemic stroke was the most frequent CV event among patients with syphilis. Patients with syphilis had ...

Center for Disease Control and Prevention data published earlier this year shows that Oregon has some of the highest rates of syphilis infections, landing ninth out of all states. At the same time, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background: In this study, we evaluate the performance of the Syphilis Health Check (SHC) in clinical and laboratory settings using ...

Doctors in Belgium met with a real head-scratcher when an 83-year-old married man came in with a rare form of secondary syphilis—the second of four stages of the sexually transmitted bacterial ...