[labatyd]

Absent serious consequences (pregnancy, HIV) why would you regularly use condoms? The article covers what I consider to be the critical point. If you don't care about getting Syphillis enough to change your behavior then why should we care enough about it to spend public funds trying to eradicate it?

It is very unlikely to have negative consequences, and while they can be severe with things like blindness, so can downhill skiing and we don't spend public funds to remove the danger of downhill skiing. Hell we often spend public funds building skate parks which come with their own small risk of serious debilitating injury and we do it because the people who engage in that behavior are aware of the danger and don't consider it serious enough to abstain from the pleasure. And most critically those of us who want to avoid the danger can quite easily do so, as with Syhpillis.

I don't see a problem worthy of the publics attention here let alone the publics funds.

[danielmg]

Are you aware of the consequences of untreated syphilis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis#Tertiary

[ahelwer]

Are ski injuries infectious? Seriously, what sort of thought process produces these comments.

[emodendroket]

I’d suggest reading further into the article where they describe the problems with congenital syphilis, then.

[jeanlucas]

And research anything about syphilis at all