Syphilis — Australia
Syphilis outbreak among Northern Territory [NT] Indigenous youth prompts fears for unborn children. Children as young as 12 [years of age] are testing positive for syphilis in an outbreak of the disease affecting young Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, new data has revealed.
The NT’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC) said there had been 134 reported cases of the sexually transmitted disease in the Central Australia, Barkly and Katherine regions since July last year [2014]. That is
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