Health Alerts

Surveillance conducted by the CDC established a fifth consecutive year of increases in sexually transmitted infections (syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia). Chlamydia was most common and ‘nearly two-thirds of those cases were among young adults aged 15 to 24 years and the reported rate of cases in women was nearly two times the rate in men’, according to the report. Rates of syphilis infections (primary and secondary) also rose.

IT’S STILL early in the flu season and overall the CDC reports low activity, except for the south and some western regions. Testing has revealed influenza B/Victoria to be most common, however, A(H1N1)pdm09 and A(H3N2) viruses have been detected ‘with the predominant virus varying by region and age group’. The ECDC also notes low activity across Europe with ‘early signs of increased influenza B activity in some countries’.  Read more.