News - Most Patients With HIV Respond Well to Syphilis Therapy: Presented at IAS

"Patients with HIV coinfected with syphilis respond well to treatment for syphilis, according to a retrospective analysis presented here at the 5th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention."

FriendFeed Promises Penicillin For The “Syphilis” — We Sign Up Again

"So. Maybe you read Michael’s rant about FriendFeed being like syphilis. His point was that its brilliant technology which facilitates real-time discussions is also perfect for mobs. Mobs that rally around hot topics, and get whipped up into saying fairly awful things about people they don’t really know. I’ve written similar things in the past as well. Anyways, a mob situation came up led to us pulling our FriendFeed account."

Infected and untreated, prostitutes behind Knox County syphilis outbreak » Knoxville News Sentinel

"Dozens of Knoxville’s street-level prostitutes are infected with syphilis or HIV and many of them don’t even know it, according to the Knox County Health Department.

Even when prostitutes do know that they’re potentially spreading a lethal disease and might face a stiff prison term for it, many continue plying their trade from the sidewalks of North and East Knoxville with little concern for themselves, their customers or the innocent who might end up infected, said Gary Messer, who does public outreach for the Health Department."

Syphilis, malaria rampant 'because of testing problems'

"The elimination of killer diseases such as congenital syphilis and malaria is still a long way off, due to the diagnostics landscape in the developing world, researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said today"