South Dakota is seeing a sharp rise in syphilis cases, the Department of Health is reporting, with cases spreading across the state. The highest number of infections are occurring in the state's two ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The rate of Syphilis in South Dakota is seeing a meteoric rise in 2022, according to the South Dakota Department of Health (DOH). However, Syphilis isn’t the only STD ...

Tyler Broghammer leaves his office nearly every day armed with a small blue cooler. Inside is a weapon against South Dakota’s syphilis epidemic: syringes of penicillin. The sexually transmitted ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — South Dakota and Minnesota are states that share a nearly 200-mile long border. But that’s not all they share; in recent years, both states have seen rising rates of ...

Health care professionals in western South Dakota are alarmed by a dramatic spike in syphilis cases in the state. The sexually transmitted disease that can infect adults and newborns increased by ...

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Several cases of the sexually transmitted disease syphilis have been reported in South Dakota, prompting the South Dakota Department of Health to alert surrounding states, including Iowa, that ...

PIERRE | Figures through April 2014 indicate that rates of some sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in South Dakota. State Epidemiologist Lon Kightlinger says syphilis rates haven't been ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota Department of Health officials say the number of syphilis cases reported in the state last year was the most in 44 years. State epidemiologist Lon Kightlinger ...