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fromArs Technica
1 day ago

The origin story of syphilis goes back far longer than we thought

A 5,500-year-old Treponema pallidum genome from Colombia shows treponemal diseases existed millennia before the 15th-century European syphilis pandemic.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 week ago

The bacterium behind syphilis has a far more ancient history than we thought

Treponemal diseases, including syphilis, originated much earlier than thought; a 5,500-year-old Treponema pallidum genome from Colombia pushes back their evolutionary timeline.
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