Last month the ‘Daily Mail ‘in one of its article brought to light the
fact that many in Rhode Island suffer from Syphilis due to dating applications
such as Tinder as well as Grindr. The article further uncovers that the
Syphilis cases in Rhode Island alone has increased up to 79 percent and hasraised concerned across the United States , as warned by the health officials.
Furthermore, aspects such as high-risk sexual relationships including sex on
different social media platform have triggered growth in diseases like HIV and
Syphilis. Health experts also warn that those having unsafe sexual relationship
with multiple partners put themselves at the risk of such (aforesaid) diseases.
To top it all, The Vermont Department of Health reveals that it is
keeping a very close watch on the growing cases of on syphilis, followed by the
figures disclosed by centres for Disease Control that shows the states that
upticks in the transmission of the bacteria due to unsafe sex in US. Regions
consisting of LAMEA, North America m Asia-Pacific and Europe indicate that they
are experiencing rising Syphilis cases as a result of men preferring men
partners for sex. Since 2000, the counts of sexually transmitted diseases have
been soaring in United States, United Kingdom, Australia as well as Canada
majorly among the MSM. The growing Syphilis cases are increasing irrespective
of tremendous advancements made to control the disease.
To curb such issues it’s important for the patients to access paramount
diagnostics, excellent medical therapy and effective pathogen which stays penicillin-susceptible.
Syphilis, albeit very infectious can be easily cured at its primary as well as
secondary stage which are believed to be the highly contagious stages of the
Syphilis disease. Recently Allied Market Research has published a report titled
“Global Syphilis Testing Market (Types and Geography) - Global Industry
Analysis, Country-Wise Market Size, Share, Growth, Company Profiles, Demand,
Insights, Trends and Forecast, 2014 – 2020.” As per the report the Syphilis
testing industry is ready to rise up to $3,650.3 million by the end of 2020 and
observe a CAGR of 1.2 percent through 2014 – 2020.
Apart from this a team of expert researches guided by biomedical
engineering professor, Samuel K. Sia have launched a cost –effective
microfluidic mChip that can diagnose Syphilis disease in just 15 minutes.
Eyeing the growing cases of sexually transmitted diseases and breakthroughs in
the diagnosis technology the future of the Syphilis testing market looks promising.
