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.»
Reported primary and
secondary syphilis cases and rates are at a 20 - year national high.
Not exact matches
If you go back to the 1940s, almost 100,000
cases of primary and
secondary syphilis were reported to the CDC at that time.
We have seen increases in the last seven years, but even the number of
cases of primary and
secondary syphilis that we see today — approximately 11,000 reported
cases, which is an increase from [the year] 2000 — is still many times better than what we saw in 1990 when
cases were over 50,000.
The number of
cases of primary and
secondary syphilis have been increasing since 2000.