Amid the current syphilis “epidemic” in the U.S., doctors are seeing more patients with unusual vision and eye symptoms due to the sexually transmitted infection. A January 2024 CDC report stated that ...

Syphilis spreads primarily through vaginal, anal or oral sex, Shen explains. Condoms greatly reduce risk, but they do not ...

Disease detectives in Chicago say they have been seeing a worrisome trend: Patients complaining of unusual symptoms like vision and eye problems, headaches and hearing loss or dizziness caused by the ...

Syphilis cases have been rising at an alarming rate in the United States, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As concerns for syphilis and sexually ...

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Syphilis isn't on the list of STIs we hear a lot about, really. We're well aware how rife chlamydia and gonorrhoea are for younger people (16-24s are the most likely to have these), but syphilis seems ...

Rates of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) syphilis are on the rise, having climbed significantly in the two decades since the early 2000s. According to a report released by the Centers for ...

The Houston Health Department announced a 128% increase in syphilis among women and a “nine-fold rise” in congenital syphilis cases — when a mother passes the infection to her baby during pregnancy — ...

Doctors seeing more syphilis patients with unusual and severe symptoms, study shows (CNN) — Disease detectives in Chicago say they have been seeing a worrisome trend: Patients complaining of unusual ...