Gonorrhea and syphilis cases surged to a 30-year high in the U.S. during the first year of the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention () has revealed.There were 678,000 infections with gonorrhea — which leads to pain urinating and unpleasant discharges from the genitals — detected in 2020, the latest report showed, the highest number since 1990 and up ten percent from the previous year.For syphilis — a condition that can triggers painful rashes — there were 144,000 cases spotted over the same period, also a record for the last three decades but up just three percent in 12 months.
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