British Columbia initiate formal outbreak response over syphilis; rates in gay men climb

Vancouver health officials are reporting a large increase in syphilis cases in 2015, prompting call from officials to urge gay men to get regularly tested as syphilis rates continue to rise. "Syphilis rates are at their highest in 30 years in British Columbia. In 2015, nearly 500 cases of infectious syphilis were reported in Vancouver Coastal ["]