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Houston is experiencing an outbreak of syphilis, the city’s health department recently revealed. Cases of the sexually transmitted infection jumped a jaw-dropping 128% in women from 2019 to 2022 ...
Cases of syphilis have hit record high numbers following a five-year trend, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. A report published Jan. 30 examined the total cases of three ...
One illuminator goes so far as to show a flagellant with an exposed penis, red at the tip as though infected with a syphilitic sore. Others show the deformed teeth associated with congenital syphilis—Hutchinson's incisors—or the eye deformity ptosis that often appears in victims of the disease. [citation needed]
In Buncombe County, syphilis infections have climbed from 27 cases of early and late-stage syphilis in 2015 to there 58 in 2022. Per 100,000 people, that's a rise of 4.8 cases to 8.4 for early ...
1759 North America measles outbreak 1759 North America Measles: Unknown [109] 1760 Charleston smallpox epidemic 1760 Charleston, British North America: Smallpox: 730–940 [110] [111] 1762 Havana yellow fever epidemic 1762 Havana, Cuba: Yellow fever: 8,000 [106] 1763 Pittsburgh area smallpox outbreak 1763 North America, present-day Pittsburgh ...
At the time, and still today, some natives say that the colonial government deliberately spread smallpox for the purpose of stealing their land. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Pacific Northwest indigenous peoples experienced several earlier smallpox epidemics, about once per generation after European contact began in the late 18th century: in the late 1770s, 1801 ...
Syphilis is treatable with antibiotics. However, if left untreated, it can progress through several stages and lead to a wide range of health issues. Houston sees 128% increase in syphilis cases ...
Rickettsialpox is a mite-borne infectious illness caused by bacteria of the genus Rickettsia (Rickettsia akari). [1] Physician Robert Huebner and self-trained entomologist Charles Pomerantz played major roles in identifying the cause of the disease after an outbreak in 1946 in a New York City apartment complex, documented in "The Alerting of Mr. Pomerantz," an article by medical writer Berton ...