Chicago's new Syphilis Elimination Plan, released earlier this month, hopes to address an alarming increase here in congenital syphilis cases. Chicago’s 2023 chlamydia rate was twice the national rate ...

Syphilis has been rising sharply in the United States, with especially high rates in Southern states. Now, a new study from ...

A single dose of penicillin works just as well to cure early syphilis as the three-injection regimen now used by many doctors, a new clinical trial says. Second and third doses of benzathine ...

Syphilis cases in newborn babies have risen over 10 times the number reported a decade ago, and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sounding the alarm with a new report.

Knox County health officials are sounding the alarm after spotting a worrying local shift in sexually transmitted infections.

Annual cases of sexually transmitted diseases reached an all-time high for a sixth consecutive year, according to the CDC, with the sharpest increase in cases of syphilis among newborns. “Less than 20 ...

Federal data released this week show that Arizona has one of the highest rates of congenital syphilis - mother to infant transmission - in the country. And the problem is particularly bad in Southern ...

Kenya is reporting a surge in syphilis, while Baringo County leads in Hepatitis B infections. Approximately 1.8 per cent of the population tests positive for the disease. This is according to a new ...