Fifty one percent of ocular syphilis cases reported in 2014-2015 were HIV positive, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Friday. Although...

An all-time high of 25,986 sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) were diagnosed in Minnesota in 2015, according to a report released today by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). The number of STDs...

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North Carolina health officials say that the sexually transmitted infection, syphilis are highest since the year 2000 and cases increased 40 percent from 2014 to 2015. The highest number of cases in...

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More than two months after this website reported the first ocular syphilis cases in Washington State, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a clinical advisory on the serious, possibly...

Following reports of clusters of ocular syphilis in Washington State (6) and San Francisco (7) since December 2014, Los Angeles County health officials say they are investigating two independent cases...

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Just about a month after Washington State reported an increase in ocular syphilis in the men who have sex with men (MSM) population, San Francisco health officials are reporting a cluster of 7 cases...

Since mid-December 2014, the Washington Department of Health has reported six cases of ocular syphilis, or syphilis of the eyes, causing blindness in at least two patients. Four of the cases occurred...