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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 ...
More than 2.4 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis were reported last year; the vast majority (1.6 million) were chlamydia, followed by gonorrhea (600,00) and syphilis (209,000).
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 ...
2006 North American E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in spinach; 2006 North American E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks; 2008 United States salmonellosis outbreak; 2009 swine flu pandemic in the United States; 2011 United States listeriosis outbreak; 2012 outbreak of Salmonella; 2012–2013 flu season; 2014 enterovirus D68 outbreak; 2015 Bronx Legionnaires ...
A lack of written evidence for the existence of syphilis in Europe, combined with an explosion of sources attesting to the appearance of a virulent new disease following exploration of the Caribbean islands, led some historians to accept the opinions of contemporary medical writers that Columbus and his men had brought the disease to Spain from ...
However, there is a lack of sources which describe major TB epidemics with definite time spans and death tolls. Hepatitis B : According to the World Health Organization, as of 2019 [update] there are about 296 million people living with chronic hepatitis B, with 1.5 million new infections each year.
These KDHE graphs show syphilis cases through the end of 2023 in Shawnee County, which has been experiencing an outbreak since May 2023. Bronaugh said there currently is no syphilis outbreaks in ...
There were three major vaccination attempts to stop the spread of smallpox when the epidemic began. Many traders tried to obtain vaccines from the American Fur Company but it was unwilling to heed their requests. [8] The American government made some efforts under the Indian Vaccination Act of 1832. Some did receive vaccines for smallpox ...