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The Centers for Disease Control released its annual report on the sexually transmitted infections in the United States in 2022. What are the STI rates in NC for chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and congenital syphilis?

The U.S. syphilis epidemic isn't abating, with the rate of infectious cases rising 9% in 2022, according to a new federal government report.

There were more than 207,000 syphilis cases in the US in 2022, a count that was last that high in 1950 . The CDC on Tuesday shared the new data, which showed cases numbered...

Syphilis is a bacterial disease that can surface as painless genital sores but can ultimately lead to paralysis, hearing loss, dementia and even death if left untreated.

Cases of the bacteria-caused STI syphilis are at their highest since the 1950s.

Syphilis Is Soaring in the U.S. Cases have risen by 80% since 2018, the CDC reported. But chlamydia remains by far the most common sexually transmitted infection.

More than 2.5 million STD cases were reported to the CDC in 2022 — likely a significant undercount given challenges around the country with access to testing.

Cases have risen by 80 percent since 2018, the C.D.C. reported. But chlamydia remains by far the most common sexually transmitted infection.

The total cases of syphilis were 207,000 in 2022, the highest number in the United States in 73 years.

People who lived with painful mouth and skin sores on the south coast of Brazil some 2,000 years ago carried the oldest known evidence of a syphilis relative. Treponema pallidum,...