"Alarming" numbers of syphilis cases are spreading among women and newborns, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned on Tuesday. In 2022, nearly a quarter of syphilis cases in ...

Congenital syphilis has declined in incidence due to ... The use of antiretroviral therapy in mothers and the newborn, however, has resulted in a decrease in incidence in the United States.

Congenital syphilis is transmitted to fetuses by parents with the infection. In a Feb. 25 letter to Oregon providers, Dr. Pete Singson of the Oregon Health Authority wrote that just two babies were ...

Illinois public health officials announced that a new data collection process has been launched in an effort to combat a sharp rise in cases of congenital syphilis within the state. According to ...

The number of primary and secondary syphilis cases in young women rose dramatically in the late 1980s and early 1990s, due to illicit drug use and the exchange of drugs for sex. Of infants born to ...

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The Oregon Health Authority says congenital syphilis cases are rising across the state, according to preliminary data.

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection that can cause serious problems if not treated – and it can pass from a pregnant woman to her unborn baby. This is called congenital syphilis.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the earliest warning signs of the primary stage of syphilis appear as sores at ...

Despite syphilis being a treatable sexually transmitted disease — which untreated pregnant mothers pass on to their infants as congenital syphilis, South Africa has reported 1 739 congenital ...

“Notably, two in five infants with congenital syphilis were born to people who did not receive any prenatal care. Therefore, it is important to make any health care encounter during pregnancy ...

Though treatable during pregnancy, syphilis has the potential to cause miscarriage, chronic medical issues for the newborn child and infant death. You can learn more about demographic trends and ...