Syphilis cases surging in Florida

[struggle4progress]

Last edited Sat Feb 24, 2024, 05:48 PM - Edit history (2)

... According to data from the Centers for Disease Control, syphilis cases reached their highest level in decades when looking at reported data in 2022.

In Florida, syphilis cases are also surging. Data from the state health department shows that cases in the state nearly doubled from 2018 to 2022 ...

Congenital syphilis, which is a condition where a mother with syphilis passes the infection onto her growing baby, also surged in Orange County in 2022 ...

https://www.wesh.com/article/syphilis-cases-rise-florida/46894060

[Chasing Dreams]

1. This is due to Trump moving there...n/t

[struggle4progress]

2. Florida STI rates higher than national average

Brandon Girod
Pensacola News Journal

... Florida ranked No. 24 in the U.S. for Chlamydia rates per 100,000 population ...

... Florida ranked No. 19 in the U.S. for gonorrhea ...

... Florida ranked No. 17 in the U.S. for syphilis, No. 14 for congenital syphilis ...

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2024/01/31/florida-std-rates-2024-syphilis-chlamydia-gonorrhea/72422571007/

All you folk down in the Alligator State, be sure to take your hydroxychloroquin and ivermectin

[barbaraann]

3. So, if they criminalize recreational sex, won't they be putting all of these people in prison?

You don't get syphilis from toilet seats.

Also, just in case there might be people who don't know about the Tuskegee Experiment:
https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm

[FreeState]

15. They would like to I'm sure

Nearly 45% of new syphilis cases are gay and bisexual men.

Most of this is because of prep which decreases the likelihood of HIV infection and has not been consistently used with condoms.

[tanyev]

4. Syphilis, measles, Covid...

Just how many people are Republicans trying to get rid of in Florida?

[tulipsandroses]

5. Has the FL Surgeon General been tested?

That might explain his brain rot.

[Lovie777]

6. OMG...............................

well the GQPs running Florida don't believe in vaccines, although most of them and their families have gotten their shots.

[TSExile]

7. Absolutely...

...you can bet that their wives, daughters, granddaughters and/or mistresses have access to the best reproductive health care that money can buy!! For me, not for thee and all that.

[FreeState]

16. 100% NOT what's happening

There is no vaccine for syphilis. It’s a bacteria.

45% of all new cases are game bisexual men.

https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdfact-msm-syphilis.htm

[Marcus IM]

8. Is there a link to this story? Thanks. n/t

[limbicnuminousity]

9. Possibly this

https://www.wesh.com/article/syphilis-cases-rise-florida/46894060

[struggle4progress]

13. oops. sorry. fixed

[llmart]

10. Florida man sure gets around...

[4lbs]

11. Well, didn't that one Dumpy GOPpie say he was going to move to Florida?

Have fun dude!

Ah syphilis.

Got penicillin?


Meanwhile, Spring Break and Ft. Lauderdale should be really interesting this year.

[PCIntern]

12. A guy I know for decades moved to The Villages

from the Philly suburbs. Yes. I know.

He told me that STD’s there are thru the roof because of the casual extramarital sex in the community.

[Red Mountain]

14. Forget flouride for the Villages

They need something stronger in the water there.

Maybe applied by aircraft.