{"id":229618,"date":"2026-01-23T01:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/ancient-dna-reveals-twisted-roots-of-syphilis-go-back-5500-years"},"modified":"2026-01-23T01:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:20:25","slug":"ancient-dna-reveals-twisted-roots-of-syphilis-go-back-5500-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/ancient-dna-reveals-twisted-roots-of-syphilis-go-back-5500-years","title":{"rendered":"Ancient DNA Reveals Twisted Roots of Syphilis Go Back 5,500 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancient-dna-reveals-twisted-roots-of-syphilis-go-back-5500-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first known outbreak of syphilis in Europe began at the turn of the 16th century, but on the distant continent of South America, the pathogen\u2019s history goes much deeper than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first known outbreak of syphilis in Europe began at the turn of the 16th century, but on the distant continent of South America, the pathogen\u2019s history goes much deeper than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}