From 2018 and 2022, cases skyrocketed by nearly 80%, totaling more than 207,000. Cases of syphilis have hit the highest rate of new infections since the 1950s, according to a new report from the ...

If you have sex—oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse and genital touching—you can get an STD, also called a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Straight or gay, married or single, you're vulnerable to ...

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Doctors seeing more syphilis patients with unusual and severe symptoms, study shows (CNN) — Disease detectives in Chicago say they have been seeing a worrisome trend: Patients complaining of unusual ...

(CNN) — Disease detectives in Chicago say they have been seeing a worrisome trend: Patients complaining of unusual symptoms like vision and eye problems, headaches and hearing loss or dizziness caused ...

She searched a citywide repository of medical records to look for cases of patients who had signs or symptoms consistent with NOO syphilis and 28 people met her case definition. Most (75%) were men ...