BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N.C. — Online dating could be to blame for a rise in reported... of Health and Human Services has projected 14 early diagnosed
syphilis cases in Buncombe County for 2015, which is the same as the year...
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.»
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.
The CDC claims the total combined number of chlamydia, gonorrhea and
syphilis cases reported in 2015 reached a peak, at nearly 2 million.
From its near eradication nationwide at the turn of the 21st century,
syphilis cases in Onondaga County doubled from 2012 to 2013.
Onondaga County used to see no more than two or three
syphilis cases a year.
Even Grindr, a hookup app for gay men, is linked with more than half of
all syphilis cases in New Zealand in 2012.
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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.