Syphilis Rates in Alaska Have More Than Doubled in a Year While Alaska’s Overall Std Rates Remain Among the Highest in the Nation

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Syphilis Rates in Alaska Have More Than Doubled in a Year While Alaska’s Overall Std Rates Remain Among the Highest in the Nation

  July 30, 2020 ANCHORAGE — Alaska’s syphilis outbreak is growing, with cases that more than doubled in 2019 to 2018. “This is the largest number of syphilis cases that we have ever had reported in one year,” said Alaska Department of Health and Social Services HIV/STD Program Manager Susan Jones. Overall, combined rates of syphilis, gonorrhea […]