Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If “syphilis” sounds to you like an illness people got in another century, you’re not alone. For decades, the infection was widely ...

Patients aged between 40 and 49 years, heterosexual patients, and patients diagnosed in the emergency department are the least likely patient groups to complete syphilis treatment. Only slightly more ...

Syphilis cases reached a six-year high in Hamilton County in 2023, according to an April report from the public health department. At 582 cases, the total represents an 80% increase since 2018, ...

The public health workforce tasked with fighting what has been a long-losing battle against sexually-transmitted infections now finds itself confronted with a new, unfamiliar outlook: hope. After ...

There are a number of primary and secondary prevention strategies that have or could be used to control the current epidemics of infectious syphilis affecting MSM communities across the world, as ...

After decades of decline, syphilis cases are on the rise again, hitting their highest levels since the early 1960s. Though the vast majority of syphilis cases are preventable, rates surged nearly 80% ...