Sentences with phrase «syphilis rates»

Twitter provided a more sensitive warning signal for syphilis rates in US counties than the previous year's disease levels

To begin to answer the question, they mapped syphilis rates across time and place and examined whether possible explanatory variables such as geographical location, health care spending, or relative wealth, showed a correlation with the observed patterns.

Local syphilis rates could be on the rise.

Chris Kenyon, from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium, and colleagues asked whether there are lessons to be learned from the way syphilis rates have changed over time.

If you look at Baltimore's syphilis rates on a graph, the line runs straight for years and then, when it hits 1995, rises almost at a right angle.

The epidemic is disproportionately affecting men who have sex with men (MSM), with Arizona seeing a higher - than - average syphilis rate in this group.

If you look at the above graph, you might think syphilis rates have been pretty stable over the past 20 years — but if you zoom in, the fact that we're in the midst of an epidemic becomes more clear.

By 2000, syphilis rates hit an all - time low, and many scientists thought the United States was at the dawn of the complete elimination of syphilis.

Tweets corresponded to a bigger change in syphilis rates, so they could provide a more effective way of planning where best to allocate resources.

It is known that syphilis rates have varied much between different countries and populations over the past 100 years.

The ads are aimed at the city's 20 - somethings, especially men, whom gonorrhea and syphilis rates are increasingly climbing.

Additionally, syphilis rates are climbing among women, who have seen a 27 percent bump between 2014 and 2015.

Despite the existence of effective treatment, syphilis rates are climbing, and when the stakes are so high, perhaps we should be searching for better means of prevention.

Since 2000, syphilis rates have nearly quadrupled, climbing from 2.1 to 7.5 per 100,000 people by 2015 — the highest they have been since 1994.

Arizona Department of Health reports show that our rates of chlamydia are increasing and gonorrhea and syphilis rates are remaining fairly steady, especially among teens and young adults.