{"id":748508,"date":"2026-08-24T20:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748508\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:10:09","slug":"people-urged-to-get-tested-for-syphilis-in-swansea-bay-health-board-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748508\/","title":{"rendered":"People urged to get tested for syphilis in Swansea Bay health board area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Porter believes many people are not aware syphilis can be contracted via oral sex alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Early symptoms can include a rash on the palm of your hands, the soles of your feet, or on your chest or stomach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Small painless ulcers might affect genital area but can also be found in other areas of the body. You may also experience swollen lymph nodes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Education is important, as is destigmatising syphilis,&#8221; said Porter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What we want is for people to have sex safely. Using condoms is a brilliant start. But if you are concerned, get tested, even if you don&#8217;t have symptoms. This helps us to identify cases, start treatment and reduce the spread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Porter said negative results are just as important as the positive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you test now and get a negative result that&#8217;s a good benchmark because if you test again and get a positive result, we will have an idea of how long you have had the infection,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Porter believes many people are not aware syphilis can be contracted via oral sex alone. Early symptoms can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-748508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}