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Shop NowData from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that multiple states are reporting skyrocketing rates of syphilis as well as other sexually transmitted diseases.
Now health officials have been prompted to call for increased prevention as well as treatment efforts in response.
The CDC reports the most notable increases in cases of gonorrhea, syphilis, and congenital syphilis.
There has been an increase of 45% for gonorrhea and 50% increase for syphilis.
However, the most concerning statistic is that of congenital syphilis, which is up by 235% since 2016.
Doctors are claiming that there are a collection of factors that could be to blame for these drastic increases.
From The Gateway Pundit:
The CDC also admitted that most cases of monkeypox had been associated with sexual contact, as reported by TGP.
“In this outbreak, most cases of monkeypox have been associated with sexual contact,” the agency added. “Monkeypox can more accurately be described as “sexually transmissible.”
“At this time, data suggest that gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men make up the majority of cases in the current monkeypox outbreak,” CDC said.
The executive director of the National Coalition of STD Director, David Harvey, stated that the increase in reported cases of STDs is “out of control.”
The Associated Press reported more on this story:
Sharply rising cases of some sexually transmitted diseases — including a 26% rise in new syphilis infections reported last year — are prompting U.S. health officials to call for new prevention and treatment efforts.
“It is imperative that we … work to rebuild, innovate, and expand (STD) prevention in the U.S.,” said Dr. Leandro Mena of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a speech Monday at a medical conference on sexually transmitted diseases.
Infections rates for some STDs, including gonorrhea and syphilis, have been rising for years. Last year the rate of syphilis cases reached its highest since 1991 and the total number of cases hit its highest since 1948. HIV cases are also on the rise, up 16% last year.
And an international outbreak of monkeypox, which is being spread mainly between men who have sex with other men, has further highlighted the nation’s worsening problem with diseases spread mostly through sex.
Officials are working on new approaches to the problem, such as home-test kits for some STDs that will make it easier for people to learn they are infected and to take steps to prevent spreading it to others.
Another expert said a core part of any effort must work to increase the use of condoms.
“It’s pretty simple. More sexually transmitted infections occur when people are having more unprotected sex,” said Dr. Mike Saag, an infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Sources: TheGatewayPundit, AP, CDC, Fox 2
