In the fall of 1932, the fliers began appearing around Macon County, Ala., promising “colored people” special treatment for “bad blood.” “Free Blood Test; Free Treatment, By County Health Department ...

DENVER — Syphilis is often asymptomatic. Increased testing of at-risk patients — especially if a new rash or welt is spotted on their body — could help catch more cases, an expert said here. In this ...

A shortage of penicillin to treat a skyrocketing number of syphilis cases is so dire that U.S. health officials are debating the need to declare a public health emergency, according to people familiar ...

Cases of congenital syphilis, an infection passed from mother to newborn, have increased more than tenfold across the nation over the past decade, with more than 3,700 cases reported in 2022, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The CDC recently reported that cases of congenital syphilis increased more than 10-fold between 2012 and 2022, ...

A national shortage of medication used to treat syphilis is leading to ration recommendations in Pierce County, and a recent update from the drugmaker did not bring better news. On July 5, the ...

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:08:16 GMT — There are rumors on the Cornell University campus about the number of students, faculty, and staff who have been diagnosed with syphilis. In the last year, Tompkins ...

Dr. Shannon Dowler of Madison County is a nationally known expert on sexually transmitted diseases. She is also the creator of awkwardly hilarious public health music videos. For both reasons she was ...

Syphilis cases in the United States shot up about 80 percent between 2018 and 2022, hitting numbers not seen since the 1950s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC said ...

The Houston Health Department has reported a syphilis outbreak, with an increase of 128% among women in the city, and a ninefold increase in congenital cases in Houston and the surrounding Harris ...