STI increase provokes govt. response

12 January 2018

With the staging of the summer Olympic Games just 2 years away, the government is tackling a rise in syphilis cases - 5,534 for 2017 up to mid-December, a steady increase from 2010 when 620 cases were recorded. High density prefectures were most affected: Tokyo (1,705 cases), Osaka (788), Aichi (325) and Kanagawa (312). Read more

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