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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

2,000-year-old bones add evidence against the idea Columbus brought syphilis to Europe. A European outbreak of the STI in the late 1400s was long blamed on the conquistadors. But DNA analysis doesn't ...

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 ...

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.

Researchers have found ancient DNA belonging to the syphilis pathogen in 2,000-year-old human bones unearthed in Brazil. It marked the discovery of the earliest known genomic evidence of Treponema ...

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 ...