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Sexually transmitted infections: 1 million cases acquired daily across the globe

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Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have a profound impact on sexual and reproductive health worldwide, and continue to cause a major burden of disease. Global estimates, published in the journal PLOS...

Mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis in the Americas: New report

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Seventeen countries and territories in the Americas have supplied data indicating that they may have eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, according to a new report by the Pan American...

Syphilis up significantly in Japan, Tokyo reports over 900 cases

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The sexually transmitted infection (STI), syphilis, has seen a rise in many areas of the globe, including the United States. Japan, who reported a mere 621 syphilis cases just five years ago, it reporting...

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Syphilis up 15 percent in the US, eight out of 10 male cases are gay men

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Just days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a significant increase in congenital syphilis in the United States, federal health officials report an alarming trend in primary...

Congenital syphilis up 38% in the US in recent years

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After a period of decline from 2008 to 2012 when the overall rate of reported congenital syphilis (CS) decreased from 10.5 to 8.4 cases per 100,000 live births, rates increased by 38 percent from 2012...

Syphilis rises dramatically in Oregon prompting awareness site, SyphAware

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Oregon health officials reported a large increase in the sexually transmitted infection (STI), syphilis since 2007, infect, they put the increase at approximately 1500 percent. In 2007, 26 syphilis cases...

Syphilis up 53% in Indiana, most cases in gay men

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Indiana state health officials are urging healthcare providers to educate patients about their risks of syphilis and to be aggressive about testing and treatment following a sharp increase in the number...

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Syphilis increases in the US military comparable to civilian population

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A newly published report from the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) reveals a marked and continuous increase (49.1% overall) in crude syphilis incidence rates during the period between 2010...

Sexually Transmitted Infections: Those common and those not so common, Part 1

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Sexually transmitted infections (STI), once called sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and venereal diseases (VD) have seen there highs and lows in the United States during the past couple decades. Some...

California: Butte County sees increase in syphilis

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As previously reported on this website, Butte County, in the California Central Valley, is topping the Golden State in human West Nile virus cases by a large margin, reporting 36 cases, or 43 percent...