{"id":9476,"date":"2022-12-07T12:41:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T12:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9476"},"modified":"2022-12-07T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T12:41:21","slug":"syphilis-rates-are-soaring-in-south-dakotas-american-indian-communities-whats-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9476","title":{"rendered":"Syphilis rates are soaring in South Dakota\u2019s American Indian communities. What\u2019s going on?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Over the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/std\/statistics\/2021\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last five years<\/a>, syphilis transmission has increased explosively all over the US. The spread of this infection, which starts as a rash but can progress to severe disease in adults, is particularly alarming because syphilis infections during pregnancy can lead to death or disability in newborns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although syphilis trends&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/23392423\/std-syphilis-sti-maternal-prenatal-care-sexually-transmitted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are bad on a national scale<\/a>, South Dakota\u2019s numbers are particularly concerning. Since 2020, cases in the state have increased&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/listen.sdpb.org\/healthcare\/2022-07-22\/south-dakota-syphilis-outbreak-continues-despite-testing-and-awareness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tenfold<\/a>. Furthermore, infections are not evenly spread across the population: American Indians make up more than two-thirds of the state\u2019s cases.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/23460951\/syphilis-south-dakota-american-indian-native-congenital\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/23460951\/syphilis-south-dakota-american-indian-native-congenital<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Over the last five years, syphilis transmission has increased explosively all over the US. The spread of this infection, which starts as a rash but can progress to severe disease in adults, is particularly alarming because syphilis infections during pregnancy can lead to death or disability in newborns.<br \/>\nAlthough syphilis trends are bad on a national scale, South Dakota\u2019s numbers are particularly concerning. Since 2020, cases in the state have increased tenfold. Furthermore, infections are not evenly spread across the population: American Indians make up more than two-thirds of the state\u2019s cases.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[738,778,81,901,787,1037,1773],"class_list":["post-9476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-disease-spread","tag-diseases","tag-health","tag-indians","tag-sex","tag-south-dakota","tag-syphilis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9477,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions\/9477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}