Case 1: A previously healthy 51-year-old man came to hospital complaining of headache of 3 weeks' duration and several days of nausea, vomiting and confusion. He had some difficulty recalling the ...

A man was diagnosed with a syphilis infection in the brain, known as neurosyphilis, after he struggled to walk and talk normally for months, according to a recent case report. The 50-year-old man’s ...

Treponema pallidum, a spirochete, causes syphilis and is spread through contact with infectious lesions or body fluids. An ulcerative skin lesion, known as chancre, typically develops at the site of ...

The Victorian-era disease is plaguing booming Alberta. Who is to blame? Ghosts, the 1881 Henrik Ibsen play in which syphilis signifies “the tragedy of heredity,” was a death knell for the 19th century ...