Tsk tsk tsk. You Europeans must be getting quite frisky in the past couple of years, because apparently, syphilis was supposed to have disappeared, but you guys got so frisky that it’s making a comeback in Europe! Considered yourself warn! Oh yeah America. You ain’t safe either. Watch yourself. Hit the jump for the press story.

• In Britain, syphilis cases have leapt more than tenfold for men and women in the past decade to 3,702 in 2006, according to the Health Protection Agency. Among men in England, the syphilis rate jumped from one per 100,000 in 1997 to nine per 100,000 last year.

• In Germany, the rate among men was fewer than two per 100,000 in 1991; by 2003, it was six per 100,000.

• In France, there were 428 cases in 2003 — almost 16 times the number just three years earlier.

• In the Netherlands, cases doubled from 2000 to 2004. In Amsterdam, up to 31 men per 100,000 were infected, while the rate was much lower in other regions.

Similar trends have been seen in the United States.

Risky Sex Returns Syphilis to Europe (Yahoo News)

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