Syphilis incidence in the US has increased by nearly 80 per cent in five years

In the United States for the five-year period from 2018 to 2022 increased the incidence of syphilis by 78.9 per cent, the number of detected cases reached 203.5 thousand for the year at all possible stages of the disease. Such data were provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Ministry of Health of the country, reports RIA Novosti.

At the end of 2019, only 113.7 thousand cases of the disease were detected in the United States, the difference was almost 80 per cent. Compared to the previous year, the number of diseases in 2022 increased by 17 per cent.