Congenital syphilis rates are currently at their highest rates since the 1990s -- 105.8 cases per 100,000 live births in 2023 ...

Even with appropriate treatment of syphilis during pregnancy, fetal infection may still occur in up to 14% of cases. Treating syphilis during pregnancy can be difficult due to physiologic changes ...

Pregnancy brings an exciting and busy nine months of preparation before baby’s arrival. It also includes an assortment of ...

Especially concerning, doctors say, are cases of congenital syphilis, where the infection is passed from a pregnant person to their fetus during pregnancy, which have nearly tripled in the same time ...

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 ...

Pregnant women have been affected by syphilis at an alarming rate. Though treatable during pregnancy, syphilis has the potential to cause miscarriage, chronic medical issues for the newborn child ...

“In the absence of treatment, 50–90% of pregnant women with syphilis will transmit the infection to their unborn child, resulting in adverse pregnancy or birth outcomes such as ...

The U.S. is seeing a resurgence in syphilis, a disease once almost completely eliminated in the country. The increase in drug use and the lack of sufficient medical care are contributing to the ...

“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 ...

Pregnancy itself does not seem to alter the clinical progression of syphilis in the female: As in the nonpregnant woman, the primary lesion (Fig. 2) can appear 10 to 90 days after the causative ...