Fewer Black people have received Covid-19 vaccines than White people. Some people have attributed these lower rates to distrust stemming from the Tuskegee Syphilis Study of the 1930s to 1970s ...

Finally, hope for a syphilis vaccine. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 06 / 180612080020.htm. University of Connecticut.

Now, a large, collaborative study of syphilis genetics from four continents has found hints of a possible target for a vaccine. The work is published in The Lancet Microbe journal.

A lingering mistrust of the medical system among many Black people is rooted in the infamous 20th century U.S. study of syphilis that left Black men in Tuskegee, Ala., to suffer from the disease.

Although African Americans stand to benefit enormously from a vaccine, they remain distrustful of a medical establishment with a history that includes the Tuskegee syphilis study and surgical ...

With rates of the STI rising worldwide, University of Connecticut researchers plan to use the protein discovery to test immunization of rabbits against syphilis and prove it could work as a vaccine.

The syphilis study and the COVID-19 vaccine are completely different, he said. He believes that enough that he himself has gotten the vaccine and is publicly encouraging others to do the same.

Scientists are developing a vaccine to prevent syphilis, which infects about 5 million people every year. A woman is vaccinated during a campaign against H1N1 flu on may 14 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Researchers have gained new insights into the syphilis genome to aid in vaccine design. Syphilis cases are the highest they have been in over 70 years, leading public health officials to seek new ways ...

Fewer Black people have received Covid-19 vaccines than White people. Some people have attributed these lower rates to distrust stemming from the Tuskegee Syphilis Study of the 1930s to 1970s ...

Despite efforts to eradicate it, syphilis is on the rise. Until now, most health agencies focused on treating infected people and their sex partners but new discoveries may make a vaccine possible ...