Consultant In Genito-Urinary Medicine Dr Aisling Loy is urging people to come forward for STI screening amid the syphilis outbreak
There has been a rise in young women contracting syphilis recently following the STI outbreak in Ireland a top doctor has said.This week the HSE confirmed a national outbreak of early infectious syphilis in Ireland.
While the data for 2021 is incomplete, indications signify that EIS notifications are increasing and exceeding those seen in the previous year. There have been 242 cases reported between January 1 and April 30, 2021. While lockdowns have meant that people are mixing, Dr Loy explained that Covid has led to sexual health services being impeded.
"Unfortunately for a lot of STIs including syphilis people don't have symptoms so they're onwardly spreading it without being screened. "People think syphilis is something from bygone years that they had in the 1800s, but it's actually ver prevalent in our sphere in sexual health. "It can infect foetuses and you can have congenital syphilis that will pass through the placenta or at birth from mother to child which can cause serious harm and still birth in new borns so that was of concern to us that there was ladies who were more at risk that didn't realise it.
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