Epidemiology of syphilis
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epidemiology-of-syphilis-258-12929309
title:
Epidemiology of syphilis
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Syphilis is a bacterial infection transmitted by sexual contact and is believed to have infected 12 million people in 1999 with greater than 90% of cases in the developing world. It affects between 700,000 and 1.6 million pregnancies a year, resulting in spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, and congenital syphilis. In Sub-Saharan Africa syphilis contributes to approximately 20% of perinatal deaths. In the developed world, syphilis infections were in decline until the 1980s and 1990s due to widesp
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Eradication efforts and prevalence of syphilis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_syphilis
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2024-02-04T19:43:56Z
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