After years of outbreak, Alberta sees decline in syphilis rates

Data from Alberta Health suggests the province’s syphilis outbreak response is finally having an impact.Download our app to get Edmonton alerts on your deviceIn 2019, Alberta Health declared a syphilis outbreak after recording levels of infections not seen since the 1940s. Last year, a report from Alberta Health shows there were 2,723 new cases diagnosed, down from 3,326 the year before. Though these statistics are still several times higher than the 140 cases recorded in 2014 before the o