Syphilis
A raging epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases in bisexual men drove U.S. syphilis rates up 12% in 2007 -the seventh consecutive year of syphilis increases.
In the meantime, a CDC study found that tests for another widespread STD - gonorrhea - miss one in three infections among men who have sex with men. African-Americans continue to be excessively affected by syphilis. Syphilis rates are six times higher for African-American men than among white men, and 13 times higher for African-American women than for white women.
Those results alone are troubling enough. But the picture becomes bleaker against the background of a surging HIV epidemic.
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