US health officials say syphilis has reached its highest level since 1995, with the increase all in men. Syphilis remains far less common in the US than many other sexually spread diseases. But there has been a steady rise in gay and bisexual men catching the disease. They account for most...
South Dakota's increase was driven by an outbreak in the Native American community, said Dr. Meghan O’Connell, chief public health officer at the Great Plains Tribal Leaders’ Health Board based in Rapid City, South Dakota. Nearly all of the cases were in heterosexual people, and O'Conn...
"The declines in syphilis gave us confidence that we had been doing a good job," said Bowen. But syphilis cases in women jumped 22 percent between 2012 and 2014, likely foreshadowing the jump in infant infections, Bowen said. "We think this increase incongenital syphilisis mirroring the trend...
MEDICAL societiesThe article offers information on the continued syphilis epidemic in the US in 2022, with over 207,000 reported cases, representing a nearly 80% increase from 2018.Harris, EmilyJAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association...
1 After a steady decline from 2008 to 2012, cases of congenital syphilis markedly increased from 2012 to 2016, from 8.4 to 15.7 cases per 100 000 live births (an increase of 87%).2 At the same time, national rates of syphilis increased among women of reproductive age. Reaffirmation In...
HOUSTON - Houston and Harris County are experiencing a syphilis outbreak after Houston Health Department (HHD) reports a 128% increase in cases among women and a nine-fold rise in congenital syphilis. Due to this, the department says they will begin rapid outreach response that ...
"There has been a near eightfold increase in congenital syphilis cases in the last decade or more, and from apublic healthperspective, we recognize that obstetrician–gynecologists and other obstetric care clinicians play a critical role," said Dr. Christopher Zahn, ACOG's interim CEO and chief ...
Owing to an increase in heterosexuals as well, cases of congenital syphilis are occurring again. The disease passes through different stages, manifests in different organs, and is characterized by various symptoms. In many cases, diagnosis in asymptomatic patients is randomly made at the late ...
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