Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pigeon sits on a statue of Christopher Columbus during a civic ceremony honoring Columbus outside Union Station in Washington, ...

And syphilis is just one of at least three diseases caused by various kinds of Treponema bacteria. For the new study, Armelagos and colleagues re-analyzed 54 published reports of treponemal disease in ...

Students walking through the RPAC in recent weeks might have noticed a sign outside of the Student Wellness Center that read: “ATTENTION COLUMBUS, SYPHILIS OUTBREAK, GET TESTED.” Ohio State Student ...

A new study is intensifying the debate over whether Christopher Columbus or his crews brought syphilis from the New World to Europe, setting the stage for hundreds of years of illness and death.

A new study in the journal Nature highlights DNA evidence that contradicts the theory that Christopher Columbus brought syphilis back to Europe after his expeditions to the Americas. According to the ...

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, but when he returned from 'cross the seas, did he bring with him a new disease? New skeletal evidence suggests Columbus and his crew not only introduced the ...

Skeletons unearthed in a cemetery may have cleared Christopher Columbus as the original transatlantic vector of syphilis. It's been popularly theorized among experts in tropical diseases that the ...

Skeletal evidence that reputedly showed signs of syphilis in Europe and other parts of the Old World before Christopher Columbus made his voyage in 1492 does not hold up when subjected to standardized ...

The spread of syphilis across the globe was probably sparked by Christopher Columbus and his crew, who ferried the bacterium, or a version of it, from the New World to the Old World, according to a ...

Dozens of skeletons unearthed in London may provide the first solid evidence that syphilis did not sail into Europe with Christopher Columbus and his crew, according to researchers working on one of ...

Columbus Health officials are warning of a huge increase in syphyllis cases that mirrors a national trend. Columbus Public Health recorded 613 syphilis cases in 2019. Last year, the total spiked to ...

Did Columbus and his men introduce the syphilis pathogen into Renaissance Europe after contracting it during their voyage to the New World? Or does syphilis have a much longer history in the Old World ...