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Cases of newborn syphilis in the United States have risen for the past 12 years, despite a slowdown in the past year or two, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Every hour a baby is born in China with syphilis, as the world's fastest-growing epidemic of the disease is fueled by men with new money from the nation's booming economy, researchers say. The easy-to ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Sentara has announced it will be partnering with the Virginia Department of Health to address the growing number of syphilis cases in Eastern Virginia. The not-for-profit health ...

Dr. Alla Kushnir was alarmed. In the decade she’d been at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, she rarely tested babies for congenital syphilis. But about five years ago, she noticed a troubling ...

This 1966 microscope photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a tissue sample with the presence of numerous, corkscrew-shaped, darkly-stained, Treponema pallidum ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)—Congenital syphilis is passed from a mother to her baby during pregnancy or birth and can cause significant health problems if it’s not caught early. “It can affect their mental ...

CHICAGO (WAND) — Last week, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced the launch of a new data collection process to learn more about the troubling increase in congenital syphilis ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Congenital syphilis testing has been recommended by medical professionals in the first and third trimester since 2014, but a new pilot program by the Louisiana Department of ...

After seeing a sustained spike in newborns born with syphilis, the Louisiana Department of Health Louisiana is ramping up its response to the disease, beginning with a pilot program to increase how ...

LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - Cheap, simple tests and treatments for syphilis in pregnancy could prevent more than half of newborn deaths and stillbirths related to the disease, which kills 500,000 a ...