Congenital syphilis rates are currently at their highest rates since the 1990s -- 105.8 cases per 100,000 live births in 2023 ...

Only screening patients for syphilis who came to the ED for gonorrhea and chlamydia testing would have missed 76.4% of ...

The number of primary and secondary syphilis cases in young women rose dramatically in the late 1980s and early 1990s, due to illicit drug use and the exchange of drugs for sex. Of infants born to ...

Luxembourg has the highest syphilis rate in Europe, at almost three times the continent’s average, according to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The latest ECDC ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the earliest warning signs of the primary stage of syphilis appear as sores at ...

Despite syphilis being a treatable sexually transmitted disease — which untreated pregnant mothers pass on to their infants as congenital syphilis, South Africa has reported 1 739 congenital ...

As an infectious disease doctor and medical historian, however, I see similarities to other epidemics, including syphilis, ...

Syphilis is on the rise in San Luis Obispo County, local medical officials warned. The sexually transmitted infection — which is most commonly spread through unprotected vaginal, anal ...

Congenital syphilis is transmitted to fetuses by parents with the infection. In a Feb. 25 letter to Oregon providers, Dr. Pete Singson of the Oregon Health Authority wrote that just two babies were ...

However, you might be shocked to learn one of the most prevalent diagnoses is syphilis. Famously known as “venereal disease,” syphilis is usually associated with time periods like Medieval ...

In 1495 a horrific new disease appeared in Europe. Acquired by sexual contact and initially spread through Europe by mercenary soldiers from the army of King Charles VIII of France returning from a ...