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A lost disease emerges from 5,500-year-old human remains

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...
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The Compelling History of a Disease Basis for Mental Illness

Psychiatry often espouses brain disease explanations for mental disorders. Psychiatry pursued brain disease models due to ...
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New Discovery Pushes the History of Syphilis-like Diseases Back by 3,000 Years and Reveals a Never-before-seen Subspecies

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago in the Late Pleistocene,” said researcher Davide Bozzi at the University of ...
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4,000-year-old skeletons reveal surprising origin of leprosy

In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of a disease that has long carried both medical and cultural weight. Their ...
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Sex, disease, and society : a comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific / edited by Milton Lewis, Scott Bamber, Michael Waugh

Sex, state, and society : sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in modern India -- Dangerous liaisons : a history of sexually transmitted diseases in Thailand -- A history of sexually transmitted ...

Guinea worm is close to being the second disease eradicated in history, following smallpox

Guinea worm is on course to become the second human disease eradicated after smallpox, with only 10 human cases reported worldwide in 2025. View on euronews ...