September 19, 2024 by University of Connecticut Accumulation of lineage-associated and population-associated missense mutations in select TPA proteins. Credit: The Lancet Microbe (2024). DOI: 10.1016/S2666-5247(24)00087-9Syphilis cases have surged worldwide, leaving public health officials scrounging for ways to stop the spread. Now, a large, collaborative study of syphilis genetics from four continents has found hints of...
Public unfamiliar with which STIs can be cured or prevented with vaccination Reports and ProceedingsANNENBERG PUBLIC POLICY CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA IMAGE: IN A SURVEY ABOUT KNOWLEDGE OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS, A NATIONAL PROBABILITY SAMPLE OF U.S. ADULTS WAS SHOWN A LIST OF SYMPTOMS AND ASKED TO CHOOSE WHICH AMONG THEM ARE USUAL...
This 1966 microscope photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a tissue sample with the presence of numerous, corkscrew-shaped, darkly-stained, Treponema pallidum spirochetes, the bacterium responsible for causing syphilis. The U.S. syphilis epidemic continues to worsen, according to a new government report released Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, that also contains...
Christine Clarridge Illustration: Eniola Odetunde/Axios Syphilis infections in Seattle-area women have risen to epidemic levels, vaulting from 117 cases of early syphilis in 2021 to 190 cases in 2022, according to the latest data from Public Health-Seattle & King County. As recently as 2017, 63 women were diagnosed with syphilis countywide, according to public health data. Why...
The most comprehensive genomic study of syphilis to date has mapped the recent resurgence of the disease around the world. Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the UK Health Security Agency, the London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine, and their collaborators found almost identical syphilis samples between 14 countries, showing there is widespread international transmission...
April 14, 20215:00 AM ETHeard on Morning Edition APRIL DEMBOSKY Syphilis cases in California have contributed to soaring national caseloads of sexually transmitted diseases. Experts point to the advent of dating apps, less condom use and an increase in meth.Wladimur Bulgar/Science Photo Library/Getty Images In certain circles of San Francisco, a case of syphilis can be...
The bacterium that causes syphilis likely uses a single gene to escape the immune system, according to new research. The finding may explain how syphilis can hide in the body for decades, frustrating the immune system’s attempts to eradicate it. It might also account for the bacterium’s ability to re-infect previously infected people who should...
By Tim Newman Fact checked by Paula Field According to a report published this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of people with chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis is rising. Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) releasedits annual Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Report, containing data from 2018. Yesterday,...
For the fourth year in a row, rates of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia all hit a record high in the US in 2017 California has one of the highest rates of the syphilis Palm Springs, California has a rate over 10-times higher than the national average A health official from the county Palm Springs resides in says that a false sense of security...
