The Genesee County Health Department is reporting a syphilis outbreak. So far, in 2008 alone, there have been 33 cases reported. In 2007, there were only 15 cases total.
Syphilis, and other sexually transmitted diseases, can only be diagnosed and treated by a health care provider. Health Department officials recommend anyone who thinks they may be […]
An outbreak of the sexually transmitted disease syphilis has some health officials in the ArkLaTex worried.
In Bowie County, Texas, which includes Texarkana, the local health department said there have been 22 cases of syphilis confirmed in the past two months. The county health unit normally sees about one case a year, said director Kathy Moore.
“That’s […]
County health officials will launch a radio and TV ad campaign Thursday in an effort to stem an alarming rise in syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases.
The county’s annual number of new syphilis cases rose from 23 in 1997 to 312 last year.
When compared with U.S. case statistics from 2001 through 2006, San Diego […]
American Bio Medica Corp. has begun manufacturing diagnostic test strips for syphilis, under a deal with a Florida company.
The Kinderhook, N.Y., company, which primarily makes tests for drugs of abuse, will produce the syphilis test under contract with Hema Diagnostic Systems (HDS), a privately held company in Miramar, Fla. HDS will include the syphilis test […]
INCREASED testing for the sexually-transmitted infection syphilis is failing to rein in Australia’s emerging epidemic, a study shows.
Rates of the old-fashioned disease have jumped sharply in the past decade, with more gay men aged in their 20s and 30s becoming infected.
Specialists have speculated whether the rise is simply a reflection of more men being tested […]
The 18th-century philosopher Voltaire may have been right after all in blaming Christopher Columbus for the syphilis pandemic that ravaged Europe from the late 15th century, a study suggested last week.The geographical source of one of the world’s most lethal sexually-transmitted diseases has been hotly debated for half a millennium, and now research from a […]
