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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 ...

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

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

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

If untreated, syphilis could progress to neurological syphilis, Vise said. "It might just be one chancre [in a person's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Back when Dr. Jaleh Akhavan was in her residency about five years ago, syphilis was considered a rare sight in a expectant mother. No longer. “Now I probably see it maybe one to two times a ...