>>371 registered cases means many more uncounted.
Syphilis? I doubt many people would simply not bother getting treatment, which is ‘free’, and in Canada typically all serious STDs get reported to a central agency even if treated privately.<<
There are certainly some people who won’t go to hospital even if it is free. Not to mention syphilis is mostly latent today. It has no visible signs in many cases.
The fearsome Al Capone was released early from Alcatraz prison because tertiary phase syphilis had so rotted his brain that he was literally no longer a menace to society nor capable of running his criminal empire.
Faggies still think AIDS was invented by the evil Reagan. Now a far older STD is threatening their loathsome lifestyle. (Sigh) is there no justice? /s