All women should be screened for syphilis ... revised reporting guidelines that broadened the definition of congenital syphilis in 1989 so that symptoms of disease or serologic evidence of ...

Again, the signs and symptoms of secondary syphilis resolve ... Untreated or inadequately treated syphilis in pregnant women can profoundly affect fetal outcome, resulting in congenital infection ...

The CDC recommends all pregnant women should be tested for syphilis ... Additionally, many people with syphilis do not have any symptoms or have very mild symptoms similar to signs of other ...

But infections in heterosexual men and women have more than doubled since ... It can take three weeks or more for the symptoms of syphilis to appear after you're infected. Sometimes the symptoms ...

along with a large rise in heterosexual women contracting the disease. Angela Cartwright, consultant in health protection for ...

The venereal disease has increased more in recent years among women, including those who are pregnant. Six babies with congenital syphilis last year died.

Among other things, it can cause severe heart, brain, bone, eye and nerve complications. Rates of syphilis remain the highest ...

Symptoms are often "mild ... Between 2021 and 2023, infectious syphilis diagnoses increased by 121 per cent (43 to 95) among heterosexual women, and 149 per cent (75 to 187) among heterosexual ...

Diagnoses of syphilis in the West Midlands shot up by 32 per cent in the past three years, especially among heterosexual men, ...