Three children in Neolithic Vietnam show classic signs of congenital treponematosis — but the evidence points to yaws, not syphilis. A new study challenges a foundational assumption in ancient disease research. #Paleopathology #Treponematosis #Bioarchaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/congenital-syphilis-was-supposed
Congenital Syphilis Was Supposed to Be a Reliable Marker. Three Children in Neolithic Vietnam Complicate That.

A diagnostic assumption decades in the making may not hold outside western clinical contexts

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