The number of syphilis cases in the U.S. are on the rise. According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cases increased by nearly 80 percent to more than 207,000 between 2018 and 2022.
Rates increased among all age groups, including newborns, and in all regions of the country. In 2022, 3,755 cases of babies born with syphilis in the U.S. were reported, which reflects an alarming 937 percent increase in the past decade, the CDC said.
The report continued that racial and ethnic minorities are most disproportionately affected due to “long standing social inequities that often lead to health inequalities.”
Experts point to various reasons for the increase, including increases in substance abuse tied to risky sexual behavior, decrease in condom use, ongoing social and economic conditions and reduction in sexually transmitted infections (STI) services at the state and local level.
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Gonna be hilarious when someone does a meta analysis and sees that local cases spiked 3 weeks after every Trump rally.
Assuming any woman will sleep with them
It’s Trump himself who’s patient zero. And he doesn’t ask permission, in case you haven’t read the news.
Why do I keep forgetting that the United States isn’t a developed country anymore?
Because they pretended so hard and so well that everyone bought it for a while.
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Also makensure you thank your significant other for healthy clam or trouser snake
I think the nut job here is the one calling people nut jobs about a vaccine that doesn’t exist
Ah I read measles doomscrolling while tired sorry
My favorite part are the upvoters - the ones who didn’t think twice but saw “yeah fuck anti vaxxers!” and put in zero thought
I’ve even gotten up votes since after you deleted the comment. I swear this place is mostly bots
What the fuck Arizona? Highest number of meth and coke users too. Chill.
