China's rapidly developing economy is the driving force behind boosting number of syphilis cases over the past decade in the country, a senior public health official has said.
Xiang-Sheng Chen said the country witnessed a tenfold increase in the sexually transmitted disease that was virtually eradicated in the 1960s.
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Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochete bacterium. Syphilis can be passed from mother to her baby during pregnancy.
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The deputy director of China's National Center for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Control further revealed that syphilis was particularly rampant in the southeast that is witnessing a booming economy though not without inequality.
Chen made his comments in the World Health Organization's monthly bulletin.
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