A record number of syphilis cases were reported last year in Mendocino County, health officials announced this week. “We were alarmed by 40 new cases of syphilis in 2022, (then) in 2023, Mendocino County had an all-time high with 53 reported cases,” the Mendocino County Public Health Office announced in a health advisory Monday. “We have also had two cases involving the brain, called neurosyphilis, and one case of syphilis from an infected mother to her newborn.” Health officials said “syphilis that gets into the brain is as serious as it sounds. It can cause blindness, loss of coordination, memory loss, or seizures, which can happen late or early in the disease,” noting that “people become
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