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  • OR: Clatsop County declares a syphilis outbreak

    Source: http://www.dailyastorian.com/Local_N...hilis-outbreak


    Clatsop County declares a syphilis outbreak
    By Jack Heffernan
    The Daily Astorian
    Published on February 16, 2017 8:14AM


    Public health officials have declared a syphilis outbreak in Clatsop County.

    Eight cases of syphilis were reported in the county in 2016, compared to three cases in 2015 and two in 2014. There were only two total reported cases in the county from 2007 to 2013.

    Although Clatsop County represents less than 1 percent of Oregon?s population, it produced almost 1.4 percent of syphilis cases in the state in 2016. Oregon as a whole produced 2.4 percent of cases in the United States despite holding 1.3 percent of the country?s population...

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    Source: http://www.dailyastorian.com/Local_N...hilis-outbreak

    County works to contain syphilis outbreak
    Three new cases reported since February
    By Jack Heffernan
    The Daily Astorian
    Published on May 23, 2017 8:27AM

    Three people have tested positive for syphilis since public health officials declared an outbreak of the infection in Clatsop County in February.

    Officials declared the outbreak after noticing an increase of positive tests the past three years...

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