No, it's been around for ages. Far longer than science has been able that kind of manipulation. Although, it has been used for controversial purposes and manipulation. See The Tuskegee syphilis experiment. The link is below.
The disease caused by Treponema pallidum is called syphilis. Other alternate names for syphilis include the "Great Imitator" because it can mimic other conditions and the "French Disease" due to its spread during the European Renaissance.
Syphilis.
Bejel, also known as endemic syphilis, is a chronic but curable disease, seen mostly in children in arid regions. Unlike the better-known venereal syphilis, endemic syphilis is not a sexually transmitted disease.
veneral disease, syphilis
syphilis
Lyme disease and syphilis are two bacterial diseases that affect nerves.
Syphilis
The answer is "Yaws." It's an infectious tropical disease similar to syphilis.
different communicable diseases are syphilis, influenza, etc
Cholera, typhoid, smallpox and syphilis
No, he died in 1917 of a disease called syphilis.
small pox and Contagious Disease :)