The sharp increase in
syphilis cases seen in Queensland in 2015 has.
We need to remember that in historical context, the number of
syphilis cases we see today is relatively low.
Not exact matches
Onondaga County used to
see no more than two or three
syphilis cases a year.
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.
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.