Syphilis rates have risen to levels not seen in the United States since the 1950s, a federal report on sexually transmitted infections among adults revealed Tuesday.
As the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases continues to expand in Japan, it has been reported that by 2022, the total number of people infected with chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis will exceed 2.5 million.
by report The number of syphilis infections alone has increased by 17% in the past year and 80% in the past five years, the highest in the United States since 1950, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Meanwhile, the number of chlamydia cases remained flat and the number of gonorrhea reports decreased in 2022.
“Syphilis is an independent infection in the sexually transmitted disease epidemic,” Dr. Laura Bachmann, acting director of the CDC’s sexually transmitted disease prevention division, warned in a statement. “This is emerging as a unique public health challenge.”
This photomicrograph released by File/CDC shows a tissue sample heavily stained with Treponema pallidum spirochetes, the bacterium that causes syphilis. The syphilis epidemic in the United States continues to worsen, according to a government report released Tuesday, January 30, 2024. (Via Associated Press, Van Orden/CDC Skip, File)
“When I was in training, I don’t recall seeing any obvious cases of primary or secondary syphilis,” said John, who leads the sexually transmitted infection testing program but was not involved in the CDC’s new report. No, Stanford said. “Vascular complications are occurring now. We are witnessing really serious surgical emergencies, the kind you read about in textbooks.”
The vast majority of congenital syphilis cases in the United States (nearly 90 percent) could have been prevented with better testing and treatment, the CDC recently announced. report Said.
The agency emphasizes the need for innovative solutions and prevention strategies to tackle the widespread sexually transmitted disease epidemic, especially in the most affected communities.
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Syphilis is a bacterial disease that manifests itself as a painless genital ulcer, but if left untreated can eventually lead to paralysis, hearing loss, dementia, and even death.
About 59,000 of the infections in 2022 were related to syphilis, the most contagious disease. About a quarter of them were women and about a quarter were heterosexual men.
“I think it’s unknowingly spreading to the cisgender heterosexual population because we’re not really testing. We’re not really looking for it.” Said Dr. Philip Chan teaches at Brown University.
Chan is also the chief medical officer of Open Door Health, a health center for gay, lesbian and transgender patients in Providence, Rhode Island.
