Well, this topic was laid out in the AM today via a piece on RBB (Berlin public TV).
Back around twenty years ago, the Bundestag wrote up a new law....the Infection Protection Act, and it mandated that clinics, doctors and states had to report up the chain to some national database.
So in 2019, the rate of syphilis for the country reached a record level (7,889 cases) for all of Germany. Berlin got 'lucky' and it ended up as the capital of syphilis....roughly 40 cases reported per 100,000 residents (highest level of any German state).
The Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg area of Berlin (the SE and E neighborhoods of Berlin-City) got real 'lucky'.....with 93 cases per 100,000 residents.
Why the big rise? They can't point toward one single issue. They can say that from the cases reported....it's mostly men (only 6-percent are women).
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