STI health: Online dating apps spark rise in Melbourne syphilis cases – The Australian

A rise in popularity of online dating apps could be contributing to a sudden surge of sexually transmitted infections across Melbourne, epidemiologists warn.
It comes as Alfred Health experts reported an increase in syphilis across Melbourne’s outer suburbs, with a 45 per cent spike in notified cases.
Ophthalmologists have also reported a twenty-fold increase in people presenting with syphilis-related eye infections as Melbourne grapples with the “epidemic”.
Deakin University epidemiologist Catherine…

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