The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...
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Ancient find rewrites 3,000 years of syphilis-like disease history
A 5,500-year-old skeleton from the Americas has yielded the oldest genetic evidence yet of a bacterium closely related to the ...
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New discovery pushes the history of syphilis-like diseases back by 3,000 years and reveals a never-before-seen subspecies
We often tell ourselves a comforting story about the history of disease: it’s the price of civilization. For most of human ...
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Scientists Find Lost Form Of Syphilis Bacteria In 5,500-Year-Old Remains
In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...
In 1495, a devastating infection began to sweep across Europe, causing pustules and sores to erupt on people’s bodies and faces. Accusatory finger-pointing about the scourge, syphilis, began almost ...
If “syphilis” sounds to you like an illness people got in another century, you’re not alone. For decades, the infection was widely considered a disease of the past. But after years of decline, ...
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