If you are exposed to the bacteria that causes syphilis, it can take about 3-4 weeks for the first symptoms to show. In the first stage of syphilis, you will develop a type of sore called a ...

All women should be screened for syphilis with a nontreponemal test (eg, rapid plasma reagin [RPR] or venereal disease research laboratory [VDRL] test) in the first trimester. Those at high risk ...

In a concerning development that has caught the attention of public health officials nationwide, syphilis - a sexually transmitted infection once considered ...

The first-line treatment of syphilis hair loss typically includes ... the syphilis progresses from the secondary to the latent stage. The latent stage begins about 1 to 2 years after initial ...

Syphilis has long been difficult to eradicate—and it’s having another resurgence. In the United States alone, more than 171,000 cases of the sexually-transmitted infection were reported in 2021, up 68 ...

What it’s looking like is a stabilization” and, hopefully, a decline will follow, state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy said Friday.

The already record number of syphilis cases in Japan this year has ... The preliminary figure is the first to exceed 10,000 since 1999, when the current data-collecting method started.

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The risk of these events seems to be directly related to the stage of maternal infection ... The manifestations of early congenital syphilis most often occur within the first 3 to 7 weeks after ...