Syphilis Cases Are on the Rise in the U.S.—Here’s What Doctors Want You to Know
If you suspect you have syphilis, it’s imperative you seek testing—without a test, it can’t be treated, Dr. Hammill explains. If your test comes back positive, you and all of your sexual partners should be treated, Dr. Murphy recommends.are spreading so rapidly in the United States. On a personal level, “syphilis is easily spread because the initial symptoms are painless and may go undetected,” Dr. Murphy says.
Another factor might be the internet, which has increasingly allowed people to seek sex with partners they might not have encountered otherwise, Hammill says. The COVID-19 pandemic is yet another facet of the most recent rise in syphilis, he explains, since funds and workers have been diverted toward treating patients with SARS-CoV-2. In fact,from January found that a third of state and local STD staff had been assigned to COVID-19 response efforts.
To curb the spread of syphilis and begin to bring numbers down, it’s imperative that those who are sexually active seek out testing—especially people like pregnant women and men who have sex with men. In fact, Hammill says, most people with sexually transmitted conditions don’t know that they have any, since not everyone develops symptoms.like using condoms can also cut down on the risk of contact with a syphilis sore, making transmission less likely.
But it’ll take change on a structural level to make a bigger impact, Hammill explains; developments like increased testing, community education, and the destigmatization of STIs helped healthcare professionals nearly eradicate syphilis 20 years ago. With the right tools, they can do it again—and not a moment too soon.Jake Smith, an editorial fellow at Prevention, recently graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in magazine journalism and just started going to the gym.
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