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The funding will be used in two projects to combat growing syphilis rates in men and women in underserved areas.

Of infants born to mothers with primary or secondary syphilis, up to 50% will be premature, stillborn, or die in the neonatal period; further, most of these children are born with congenital ...

Congenital syphilis, when a fetus is exposed to syphilis during pregnancy, can lead to stillbirth, miscarriage and fetal ...

"This is not just a health care crisis, but a call to action for all of us that the consequences of this disease, ...

Akhavan's experience dovetails with a concerning trend health officials are seeing on both a state and a national level: a disturbing rise in congenital syphilis that, if left untreated ...

With a growing number of congenital syphilis cases, state officials this week renewed a public health order dating back to 2021, encouraging physicians to increase testing for the sexually transmitted ...

New Mexico has one of the highest rates of syphilis transmission in the United States; that's according to the Centers for ...

When people hear about syphilis, a contagious venereal disease, they might think it's an old disease of royal families. More ...

Syphilis cases have nearly quadrupled in Iowa over the past five years, with a striking 796 percent rise among females and a ...

A new study being presented at this year’s ACAAI Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston showed that syphilis patients labeled as penicillin allergic who are low risk should be delabeled to avoid ...

Cook County health officials launch campaigns against a significant rise in syphilis, particularly congenital cases.