The Alabel Peer Educators' approach is deeply community-based: going where young people are, whether that’s a barangay gym, a classroom, or even an open shed ...

Health professionals say HIV, hepatitis, and syphilis are surging throughout the state, and getting tested can stop the spread.

Data=KCDC Last year, the number of legal infectious diseases increased by 54.5% compared to the previous year. The whooping ...

PAOCC executive director Gilbert Cruz said 66 POGO workers arrested by authorities were found afflicted with illnesses such as human immunodeficiency virus, syphilis and hepatitis B.

PAOCC Executive Director Gilbert Cruz said at least 700 former POGO employees remain at their temporary detention center in Pasay City. A recent medical examination revealed 66 tested positive for HIV ...

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI), that is passed on through unprotected sexual contact. Most commonly associated with the Victorian era, it is still prevalent, with cases ...

Symptoms of syphilis can take up to three weeks to appear after being infected. They can be mild and come and go, but the infection will remain and you will be able to pass it on. This is why if ...

CASES of a sexually transmitted infection that was rampant during the Victorian era have seen a “concerning” surge in England. Diagnoses of syphilis – which can trigger heart dise… ...

Officials from the UK Health Security Agency said a total of 9,535 syphilis cases were detected in 2024, an increase of 1.7 per cent compared to the year prior.

Especially alarming: Congenital syphilis, which occurs when a mother with syphilis passes the infection on to her baby during pregnancy, increased 30.6% with more than 3,700 cases in 2022.

Based on their genomic analysis, the researchers found that T. pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis and related diseases, originated in the Americas during the middle Holocene epoch, as ...

For centuries, scientists have disputed the origins of syphilis. A new study of ancient DNA supports an American origin for syphilis, before Columbus arrived.