{
  "id": 679542,
  "title": "3,500-year-old skeletons challenge what scientists thought they knew about syphilis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/3-500-year-old-skeletons-challenge-what-scientists-thought-they-knew-679542",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-12T13:05:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ScienceDaily",
    "slug": "sciencedaily",
    "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260811011143.htm"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Ancient remains from Vietnam suggest diseases like yaws may have been passed from mother to child thousands of years ago, a form of transmission often assumed to indicate syphilis. The discovery could overturn how scientists interpret ancient infections and complicate the long-running mystery of syphilis’s origins.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}