Eliminating syphilis from the United States

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of STD Prevention. Syphilis Elimination Effort.
• Description:
  The U. S. has a unique but narrow window of opportunity to eliminate syphilis while cases are still declining.
  
  Why is Syphilis Elimination in the U.S. within our reach now?
  
  • Syphilis is a preventable and curable sexually transmitted disease (STD).
  
  • Infectious syphilis is at the lowest rate ever reported: 2.6 cases/100,000 population (6,993 total cases).
  
  • Syphilis is now very concentrated.
  
  - - Half of all new cases in 1998 were reported from only 28 counties, which represent less than 1% of all U.S. counties.
  
  - - Counties with high infectious syphilis rates (>4.0 cases/100,000 population) are clustered in the Southeastern U.S.
  
  • Other industrialized countries have already eliminated syphilis.
  
  Publication date from document properties.
  
  usfact.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disease Eradication Sexually Transmitted Diseases/prevention & Control Syphilis
• Series:
  Together we can SEE   ; Syphilis Elimination Effort  
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  Syphilis Elimination Effort (U.S.) ; Syphilis Elimination Effort (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:af6b17f545e97447fcbab4a309d35a3f813c50189ef551834059f3796fee781295cbb1e421290fcf886cc26a67a5370ccc82eb249095cc1f7b77c1d1be968531
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/126268/cdc_126268_DS1.pdf
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