syphilis
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Each causes a different disease: syphilis, yaws, and bejel.
From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2026
This bacterium is responsible for several serious infectious diseases today, including syphilis.
From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2026
Other STIs are also on the rise, with syphilis cases last year reaching their highest level in seven decades.
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025
In Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 2020, as in other military towns across the U.S., rates of sexually transmitted infections like syphilis, herpes simplex and HIV are among the highest in the country.
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2025
One recent case involved the long-running debate over whether syphilis originated in the New World or the Old.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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