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.»
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syphilis cases in Buncombe County for 2015, which is the same as the year...
Even Grindr, a hookup app for gay men, is linked with more than half of
all syphilis cases in New Zealand in 2012.
From its near eradication nationwide at the turn of the 21st century,
syphilis cases in Onondaga County doubled from 2012 to 2013.
Not exact matches
One policeman and a protestor are injured
in the melee.On that same page, the book tells us that, The Centers for Disease Control estimate that gay or bise men account for as much as one - third of the
cases of
syphilis
These pathogens, or spirochetes, can invade the central nervous system and,
in the
case of
syphilis, enter the placenta, causing disease
in the unborn child.
Meanwhile, the rate of reported
cases of
syphilis in the U.S. rose for the seventh consecutive year — up 12 percent between 2006 and 2007 — according to preliminary data gathered by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
We haven't seen that few
cases reported
in the history of reporting
syphilis since the 1940s.
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.
We need to remember that
in historical context, the number of
syphilis cases we see today is relatively low.
The CDC claims the total combined number of chlamydia, gonorrhea and
syphilis cases reported
in 2015 reached a peak, at nearly 2 million.
Beginning with the Nazi Doctors» Trial at the 1946 Nuremberg Trial (1), coverage includes publication of Henry Beecher's «Ethics and Clinical Research» (2), The New York Times exposure of the public health service
syphilis study
in Macon County, Alabama (the infamous «Tuskeegee
case»)(3), the University of Pennsylvania / Gelsinger gene transfer
case, and The Washington Post series on international clinical drug testing abuses (4).
In 2014, approximately 20,000 cases of syphilis were reported in the United State
In 2014, approximately 20,000
cases of
syphilis were reported
in the United State
in the United States.
One way to predict an increase
in syphilis rates is to look at the current number of
cases — for example, each county that had a higher than average number of
cases in 2012 saw a 0.6 per cent increase the following year.
Last June, U.K. health officials reported more than 50
cases of
syphilis across South Wales
in the first half of the year, a rate that was nearly as much as all of Wales
in 2013.
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 sharp increase
in syphilis cases seen
in Queensland
in 2015 has.
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.
Even then, up until a few years ago,
syphilis was on the wane
in the latter group with only 123
cases notified
in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people nationally
in 2009.