Manitoba, Canada: Syphillis outbreak

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Syphillis outbreak in Winnipeg
QMI Agency
Sunday, October 26, 2014 4:49:25 CDT PM

WINNIPEG -- The city is in the midst of its worst outbreak of syphillis this century.

Officials with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) issued a bulletin to health-care providers across the city on Friday, revealing there have been 60 cases reported in the first 10 months of 2014 -- the fastest-spreading and highest number ever recorded in the Winnipeg Health Region.

Eight to 10 cases are being reported per month, up from only one or two between 2007 and 2012.

"Most cases are being diagnosed in men who have sex with men," the bulletin reads. "About one-third of cases are HIV-positive and cases are spread evenly throughout all community areas in Winnipeg.

"Cases have also been reported in all other" regional health authorities...

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Manitoba syphilis outbreak driven by social media hook-ups
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Social media is still fuelling the largest outbreak of syphilis in Winnipeg in recent years.

Dr. Joss Reimer, medical officer of health for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, says 60 cases have been reported in Winnipeg so far this year. The majority are diagnosed in men who are having sex with men..

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Source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/loc...281735591.html

nipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
Winnipeg health officials are using the web to fight syphilis outbreak
STI is spreading via online hookup sites and apps
By: Aidan Geary
Posted: 11/6/2014 Last Modified: 8:45 AM |

Winnipeg is facing an unprecedented outbreak of syphilis that has health workers using modern methods to combat it.

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority put out a bulletin last month alerting health-care providers to the outbreak of the sexually transmitted infection, which began in 2013. It is Winnipeg's second syphilis outbreak in a decade, the first occuring from 2003 to 2008.

At the peak of that outbreak, the WRHA encountered about three new cases a month. Now, health workers are seeing six a month...

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Source: http://www.thompsoncitizen.net/news/...rity-1.2115837

Syphilis outbreak challenges Northern Manitoba health authority
Kacper Antoszewski / Thompson Citizen
November 19, 2015 05:31 PM

A continuing syphilis outbreak has proved a challenge for Northern Manitoban healthcare providers, with 21 confirmed cases since September 2014, compared to a usual range between zero and four cases.

Dr. Michael Isaac, medical officer of health with the Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA), says that tracking and containing the spread of the disease has been challenging for a variety of reasons. ?I?d say that we are seeing sustained community transition, and despite our efforts are not seeing our case count go down.?...

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Source: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/op...510233632.html

Syphilis outbreak creates tiny, innocent victims
By: Editorial | Posted: 05/21/2019 7:00 PM

If we need poster kids to warn about the dangers of a hookup culture that condones unsafe sex, or the perils of intravenous drug abuse, consider the 10 Manitoba babies born this year with syphilis.

For adults, syphilis is usually curable with a single dose of penicillin. For newborns infected with the disease, the consequences can include deformed bones, severe anemia, enlarged livers and spleens, jaundice, meningitis and brain and nerve problems such as blindness or deafness.

The afflictions suffered by these innocent victims is heartbreaking, but babies are only part of the syphilis outbreak in Manitoba that has seen reported cases rise from 118 in 2014 to 350 in 2018. Manitoba is on target for 600 diagnoses in 2019.

Since the current outbreak began in 2014, the infection had mainly been transmitted between men having sex with men; recently, it has crossed that demographic boundary and spread to heterosexual people and women. The number of reported syphilis cases among women in Manitoba has jumped from 16 in 2014 to 168 in 2018...