Sentences with phrase «recent syphilis»

A recent syphilis outbreak in Central Australia has prompted renewed calls for urgent investment in sexual health services for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in re... Read more

The issue of syphilis was also raised, with this Croakey post looking at the recent syphilis outbreak in Central Australia and might measures might be needed for its eradication.

Not exact matches

Most of the scientific evidence in recent years had been gleaned from the bones of members of past civilizations in both the Old and New worlds; bones were considered credible markers since chronic syphilis causes skeletal lesions.

In October the United States apologized for its reckless medical experimentation — not for the recent cia activities but for infecting Guatemalans with syphilis in the 1940s to test the effectiveness of penicillin in a precursor to the infamous Tuskegee experiments.

At Obama's request, the panel is also following up on the recent revelation that in the mid-1940s, a U.S. federal researcher deliberately infected patients in Guatemala with syphilis.

This is in line with the most recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which found that men who have sex with men account for three - quarters of all newly diagnosed syphilis cases.

Herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis, Chlamydia and even HIV have skyrocketed in recent years.

In fact, the CDC says that in 2014, the most recent year for which the data is available, «men who have sex with men accounted for 83 % of primary and secondary syphilis cases in the United States.»

But suggestions that the recent rise in syphilis cases has something to do with child sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities are an irresponsible distraction from the issue at hand.