Christian campaigners have launched a petition against the display of a 19th-century prophylactic depicting a semi-naked nun ...

Congenital syphilis represents one of the most devastating yet preventable threats to infant health, with cases climbing at an alarming rate across the United States.

2. Spiteri G, Unemo M, Mårdh O, Amato-Gauci AJ. The resurgence of syphilis in high-income countries in the 2000s: a focus on Europe. Epidemiol Infect 2019; 147: e143. 3. Forrestel AK, Kovarik CL, Katz ...

Three patients who had advanced optic atrophy —1 with congenital, and the other 2 with acquired syphilis — failed to respond clinically to a total dose of 2,400,000 Oxford units, which each ...

Objectives: to evaluate the prevalence and associated factors with acquired syphilis in pregnant women attended at the primary health care in Montes Claros-MG. Methods: a cross-sectional study carried ...

This year in South Dakota, of 649 documented cases of syphilis, 546 have been among Native Americans, who make up only 9 percent of the state’s population.

For example, in 1949 only 21.4 per cent of all cases of acquired syphilis were reported in the primary or secondary stages; in 1950 only 16.6 per cent were reported.

Syphilis affects your nervous system: Penicillin given through an IV (intravenous) infusion, with treatment given once a week for two weeks. To treat syphilis with penicillin, you need a shot or IV ...

Chlamydia affected 4.2 per cent, while gonnorhoea affected 1.5 per cent of this population. The WHO estimated that in 2022, eight million adults aged between 15 and 49 acquired syphilis. Some ...

By Dr. Francisco R. Velázquez and Kirsten Duncan Through the remainder of June, we will see a number of billboards, advertising and communications highlighting the current state of syphilis in ...

A fresh attempt to suggest that Hitler's behaviour might partly be influenced by advanced syphilis has been made by a US historian. The rumour that the Nazi leader might have contracted the sexual ...