Timely treatment – at least 30 days before delivery – slashes the risk that the infection will pass from mother to baby by 98%, and syphilis is treated with penicillin, one of the world’s ...

The report also found that cases of congenital syphilis, which occurs when a baby is born with the infection after the mother passed it on during pregnancy, rose by 32% from 2,148 to more than ...

If your baby has congenital syphilis, it’s important that you get them treatment as soon as possible. Prompt treatment and regular medical checkups is necessary to make sure therapy works properly.

Especially alarming: Congenital syphilis, which occurs when a mother with syphilis passes the infection on to her baby during pregnancy, increased 30.6% with more than 3,700 cases in 2022.

Syphilis in newborns increased 755% from 2012 to 2022, nationwide. Cases also rose in Connecticut.

It found that the rates of congenital syphilis among babies born at Cooper University Hospital jumped from 45.5 cases per 100,000 live births in 2019 to 518.4 in 2021 — far higher than the rates ...

After seeing syphilis skyrocket in recent years, Woodbury County's cases of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) are ...

Cases of congenital syphilis — an STI passed to a baby during pregnancy — increased by 1,450% in the state since 2019. Health officials say there were 31 cases of babies born with syphilis in ...

Georgia as well as the nation has a long way to go to stop the STI epidemic. Nationwide, more than 2.4 million cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia were diagnosed and reported last year ...

Nationwide, more than 2.4 million cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia were diagnosed and reported last year — 1.6 million cases of chlamydia, 600,000 of gonorrhea, and more than 209,000 ...

Cases of congenital syphilis — an STI passed to a baby during pregnancy — increased by 1,450% in the state since 2019. Health officials say there were 31 cases of babies born with syphilis in ...