U.S. Syphilis Cases Continue to Rise
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.
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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,...