Syphilis: How deadly disease has spread in AustraliaLess than a decade ago, doctors in Australia believed they were close to eliminating syphilis from remote indigenous communities - the centre of national efforts to fight the disease. The majority of syphilis sufferers in Australia are young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who live in regional areas in the nation's north and centre, doctors say. Indigenous health experts, including Associate Prof James Ward, issued a call in the Medical Journal of Australia in 2011 to try to end syphilis in communities where it was a problem. "If this had occurred among young, heterosexual people in non-indigenous Australia there would be a national outcry," he told the BBC. 'Plenty to be done'Associate Prof Ward said it remained too early to assess the impact of the most recent response.

Source: VietNamNet News July 27, 2018 03:22 UTC