#syphilis — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #syphilis, aggregated by home.social.
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Sexually transmitted infections are surging in Europe.
In May the European Union’s Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reported that in 2024, the most recent year for which it has compiled figures, there were some 100 000 cases of gonorrhoea in Europe, more than three times as many as in 2015. Cases of syphilis more than doubled, to around 46 000.
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Making Syphilis Great Again
STAT News: Syphilis spreads while researchers contend with federal constraints and a drug shortage
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July 25, 1972 Tuskegee Syphilis Study exposed.
See wikipedia for details. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
Also: "Miss Evers' Boys" the play and HBO show -
"Alabama law requires every person in Tuscaloosa County to be X-rayed for #Tuberculosis between the ages of 13 and 50 and Blood tested for #Syphilis between the ages of 14 and 50."
They segregated blacks from whites, but they tested BOTH. And they frightened people by leading them to believe it was a law.
source:
The Tuscaloosa News
6-Sep-1951 -
@HakeemG
How many black people?#Tuskegee #Syphilis Study - At the clinic on campus for blacks (today called Tuskegee University), 399 men with syphilis were given fake treatments and were told they were receiving treatment, but in reality, they were not.
"facilities and staff of the Tuskegee Institute were involved" - the clinic on campus was used for this study.
https://www.tuskegee.edu/Content/Uploads/Tuskegee/files/Bioethics/SyphilisStudyCommitteeReport.pdf
I am surprised this university is still in business and people still want to go to school there.
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Congenital #syphilis is a "never event" in the medical world - shouldn't happen. But the only drug to prevent spread from an infected mother to her baby is in short supply & the system set up to deliver it where it's needed failed, Eric Boodman of @STAT reports. https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/15/pfizer-bicillin-shortage-preventable-congenital-syphilis-surging/
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Wow just learned that syphilis was not in fact from the new world #syphilis
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1 in 5 #pregnant people in #Ontario not screened properly for #syphilis, new study says
https://ground.news/article/study-reveals-persistent-gaps-in-ontarios-prenatal-syphilis-screening-coverage?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share -
"The rate of syphilis infections in the U.S. has been steadily increasing since 2000.
In 2018, there was a sharp increase in this rate, as the group predominantly affected by this STI shifted from men who have sex with men to the general population of both men and women.
This shift caused an increase in rates of maternal syphilis, which has led to a 700% increase in congenital syphilis cases since 2015"
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Yay, syphilis is back
KTLA: Syphilis cases are spiking in several California counties
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see also my recent feature on the presence of #syphilis in #SouthAmerica before Columbus. magic link should still be working: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-mysteries-of-syphilis.html
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@newsguyusa As I said before, it would not surprise me he has Lues stage 4 like Idi Amin and a lot of other famous guys died of. The rapist pedo has had a ‘rich’ sex life so…..🤷🏼♂️
#syphiliticdementia #syphilis #lues -
Former Biden HHS leaders hail syphilis breakthrough as Trump dismantles the system behind it
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/health/sexual-health/doxypep-syphilis-biden-hhs
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Anslingers rassistische „Beweise“ – Anti 🌱 #Cannabis 📢 #Propaganda:
„In den #USA gibt es 50-100.000 #Marihuanaraucher, die meisten davon sind #Neger, #Mexikaner und #Unterhaltungskünstler… und der ’satanische‘ #Jazz sei eine direkte Folge des Marihuanakonsums.“
— Harry J. #Anslinger
Seine „dokumentierten“ Fälle:„Zwei Neger verschleppten unter dem Einfluss von #Marihuana eine 14jährige in ihre Hütte, wo sie zwei Tage lang gefangen gehalten wurde. Als man sie fand, litt sie an #Syphilis“
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(9/10)
- Australie colonie UK : ... familles pour être remanié dans institutions maltraitantes.
- #PaulEhrlich et #SahachiroHata découvrent un dérivé de l'arsénic efficace contre la #syphilis -> #AlexanderFlemming en affine l'usage (cf 1915 1918 1922) #sante #science + décès de #RobertKoch (cf 1843 1882).
- décès d'Henry Dunant (cf 1828 1863 1864).
- France : #Gaumont présente son gramophone + #Paris crue inondations. -
this week's feature in @CurrentBiology is about the unusual origins of #syphilis now being clarified by #ancientDNA research https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-mysteries-of-syphilis.html #science
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my features published in @CurrentBiology this year, issue 5: #AncientDNA reveals the unusual origins of #syphilis
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-mysteries-of-syphilis.html #science #medicine #infectiousDiseases
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The origin story of #syphilis goes back far longer than we thought
Nelson and her colleagues found a 5,500-year-old Treponema pallidum #genome in an individual excavated from a rock shelter in Colombia—a discovery that shows pathogens causing treponemal diseases like syphilis, bejel, or yaws are several millennia older than we thought. And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/the-origin-story-of-syphilis-goes-back-far-longer-than-we-thought/ -
🇨🇺 | #Cuba: First country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of #HIV and #syphilis, validated by the #WHO and #PAHO in 2015.
Another historic triumph for Cuban public healthcare, the result of universal prenatal care, free access to medicine, and the commitment of thousands of healthcare workers.
All this while being under #USA embargo...
✅ Confirmed: Cuban #socialism is a threat to #capitalist selfishness.
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In the 1930s, #Anslinger's anti-cannabis articles often contained #racist themes.
Colored students at the Univ. of Minn. partying with (white) female students, smoking [#marijuana] and getting their sympathy ...
Two #Negroes took a girl fourteen years old and kept her for two days ... #syphilis.[28]
#Reefer makes #darkies think they're as good as #whitemen.[29]
🌱 #Cannabis als #WerkzeugdesRassismus und #Faschismus
Der #warondrugs eine #Lüge❓
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Une #explosion #brutale des cas de #syphilis en #Argentine, aggravée par les #coupes #budgétaires
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The return of the #syphilis in the #USA. If we lower our guards, infectious diseases will return and cause suffering and #death again. #health #healthcare
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2843241
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Thomas Philologus Ravennas
There's a statue of a bearded man on the façade of the church of San Zulian, above the entrance.
Yet another saint, one presumes, before walking on towards the main sights at St Mark's.
Well, no! That's Tommaso Ravenna, astrologer, physician, patron of the arts and sciences, knighted in several countries, who in the 1500s got rich and famous selling remedies for syphilis.
#histodons #Monuments #Statues #Syphilis #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/article/venetians/thomas-philologus-ravennas/
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#OnThisDay in 1828, #FranzSchubert, Austrian #composer (Die schöne Müllerin), died from #syphilis and #typhoidfever at 31.
#RIP 🥀🕯️
