A dozen patients have reported being positive for germs that cause AIDS, hepatitis or syphilis after receiving recalled tissue transplants, according to their lawyers and court records.

Lawsuits filed for the victims claim that they caught deadly viruses and other germs from body parts stolen from corpses in a ghoulish scandal that has sent hundreds of people for tests

Syphilis cases in the U.S. are on the rise, while gonorrhea disease rates reach a historic low.

The annual report on sexually transmitted diseases (STD) by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that although syphilis is rarer in the United States than gonorrhea and chlamydia, the rate of infection is rising primarily among men who have sex with men

Syphilis cases in the U.S. are on the rise, while gonorrhea disease rates reach a historic low.

The annual report on sexually transmitted diseases (STD) by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that although syphilis is rarer in the United States than gonorrhea and chlamydia, the rate of infection is rising primarily among men who have sex with men

In a People Daily's report, the South African Health Department announced that between 6.29 million and 6.57 million people in the country had been infected with HIV/AIDS by last year.

The figure, attributed to the department's HIV and Syphilis Antenatal Sero-prevalence Survey, is far higher than the estimate of 4.5 million given by the official state statistics agency, Statistics SA