https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/wave-victorian-diseases-making-comeback-30658369
A wave of Victorian diseases that had been virtually wiped out are making a comeback – including killer STD syphilis.
Experts say falling childhood vaccination rates, changes in behaviour and eating habits and climate change have created a perfect storm for eliminated illnesses to return.
Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics meaning one of the most transformational medicines of the past 100 years is now under threat, according to news website Politico.
One of the strangest conditions to return in Britain is syphilis – a sexually transmitted bacterial disease that can be treated with penicillin if caught early.
If not it can progress from a painless sore to a rash, fever and fatigue then lay dormant in the body foe decades before damaging organs resulting in death.