South Lampung Health Office Finds 8 Cases Of 'King Of Lions' Syphilic Disease

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LAMPUNG SELATAN- The Health Office (Dinkes) of South Lampung Regency recorded eight cases of the disease of the king of lions or syphilics and the disease of Sexual Infection (IMS) in the January-May 2023 period in this region.

"From the beginning of 2023, there were 8 cases recorded by the South Lampung Health Office," said Head of the Prevention and Control Division of Infectious Diseases Basuki Didik Setiawan, quoted by ANTARA, Saturday, May 20.

Meanwhile, in 2022 the number of syphilic cases in South Lampung was recorded at 20 cases.

"For last year or 2022 there were 20 cases and they have been treated," he said.

He appealed to the entire community, especially teenagers, to avoid promiscuity such as free sex.

"For those who are not married, they do not have sex and those who are married only have sex with their partners," he said.

His party has made efforts to stop the transmission of the syphilic disease

"We have carried out HIV screening and syphilics carried out simultaneously in the key population, as well as for pregnant women to find cases of sifilis and treated so as not to infect others," he also said.

Previously, based on data from the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes), syphilic diseases continued to increase in the last five years (2016-2022).