Syphilis can progress to a third stage if left untreated. The third stage emerges 10 to 30 years after the initial infection and can be fatal. At any point in the infection, ...

Drugmaker Pfizer is warning doctors that it expects to run low on supplies of Bicillin L-A, a long-acting injection of the ...

Andrew Gans called syphilis “the great imitator.” As communicable disease bureau chief at the New Mexico Department of Health, Gans is responsible for tracking and responding to conditions spreading ...

Dear Dr. Donohue • Fifty years ago, when I was in the Army, we were drilled about venereal diseases. At that time, the most feared one was syphilis. We were ...

S yphilis has long been difficult to eradicate—and it’s having another resurgence. In the United States alone, more than 171,000 cases of the sexually-transmitted infection were reported in 2021, up ...

Sexually transmitted diseases remain a persistent public health challenge in America: there were approximately 2.5 million ...

S yphilis has long been difficult to eradicate — and it’s having another resurgence. In the United States alone, more than 171,000 cases of the sexually-transmitted infection were reported in 2021, up ...