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U.S. syphilis rates highest since 1950, other STD rates down or flat
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Wed, 2024-01-31 14:26 — mike kraft
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It’s not clear why infectious cases of syphilis rose 9% while gonorrhea dropped 9%, officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, adding that it’s too soon to know whether a new downward trend is emerging for the latter.
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Congressional funding resources cutbacks likely
... public health officials said they are worried they don’t have the resources to combat the surge. Health departments are still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and mpox outbreak, and Congress is poised to claw back $400 million in public health workforce funds as part of the debt ceiling agreement between President Biden and congressional leaders.
“There’s no question that during the pandemic, public health was busy doing a lot of other things and we diverted a lot of people and resources and just attention … and that probably caused us to lose some ground on the progress that we’ve been making,” said Scott Harris, the State Health Officer of Alabama.
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