Texas recorded its first locally acquired case of dengue fever this year, state public-health officials said this week. The case was reported in Cameron County, which sits on the Texas-Mexico border with a population of around 425,000 and includes the city of Brownsville. Mosquitos carry the potentially deadly virus. Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Last year, the state … Read more
Health experts are warning of new and highly contagious fungal strains after an NYC man in his 30s developed a sexually transmitted form of ringworm — the first reported case in the US. “Healthcare providers should be aware that Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII [TMVII] is the latest in a group of severe skin infections to have now … Read more
The number of sexually transmitted infections has spiked across the Big Apple, disturbing new data from the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shows. The gonorrhea rate is up 11% among men and the syphilis rate has skyrocketed a staggering 36% among women, according to the 2022 Sexually Transmitted Infections Surveillance Report, released Tuesday. … Read more
Alzheimer’s disease has been considered something that happens from within, generally speaking — but for the first time, researchers have identified cases that were triggered by a specific medical treatment. The most common type of dementia, Alzheimer’s is caused by a buildup of amyloid proteins in the brain, with risk factors including age, family history, … Read more
A “cluster” of eye syphilis cases have been found in Michigan, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This week, the agency reported five cases of eye — or “ocular” — syphilis “in women with a common male sex partner” that occurred between March and July of 2022. All of the women, aged … Read more
Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) Sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. are at a crisis point. On Monday, prominent public health experts and government officials raised an alarm over the ongoing annual rise in STDs. Preliminary data recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia all went … Read more