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Orange County Health Care Agency
Infectious Syphilis Cases More than Quadruple in OC in Last 5 years; other STDs increase as well
Increases in STDs have been reported in California as well as across the US. Orange County has experienced significant increases in syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia from 2011-2015, and the trend continued in 2016 (year-end data not final yet), with case numbers at the end of November being equal to or higher than cases for all of 2015. The increases in Orange County by disease for 2011-2015 are as follows:
- Syphilis: 330% increase in cases of primary, secondary and early latent syphilis, which are the “early”,
or contagious forms of syphilis (from 108 cases in 2011 to 464 cases in 2015) - Chlamydia: 46% increase (from 7924 cases in 2011 to 11,561 cases in 2015)
- Gonorrhea: 138% increase (from 976 cases in 2011 to 2317 cases in 2015)