How Does Congenital Syphilis Affect a Baby? Congenital syphilis is caused by a bacteria called Treponema pallidum. It’s more likely to affect your baby if you get syphilis during your pregnancy.

Syphilis is making a comeback in the United States. Both congenital syphilis, which affects babies born to mothers with the disease, and adult cases caused by sexual transmission, are on the rise.

Congenital syphilis – where a mother passes the infection to her child during pregnancy, often after contracting it from their partner – has risen particularly sharply, with 3,755 cases in the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling for “urgent action” to address a tenfold rise over the last decade in cases of congenital syphilis — when the life-threatening ...

Congenital syphilis has become more than ten times as common over the past decade, the C.D.C. reported. “The situation is dire,” said one expert. By Apoorva Mandavilli The rise in sexually ...

Amid the nationwide spike in congenital syphilis, experts recommend increased screening for all pregnant mothers. Photo by freestocks on Unsplash Syphilis cases in the U.S. have spiked in the last ...

It finds more than 3,700 cases of congenital syphilis in 2022 alone, representing about a 30% increase from the year before. While syphilis can be effectively treated during pregnancy, the ...

A poster of pregnancy in an examination room at Mary’s Center in Washington, D.C. Congenital syphilis can be devastating to babies but is preventable through testing and treatment during pregnancy.

The Houston Health Department has reported a syphilis outbreak, with an increase of 128% among women in the city, and a ninefold increase in congenital cases in Houston and the surrounding Harris ...

A surge in babies born with congenital syphilis in Mississippi calls attention to rising cases throughout the nation, especially the South, experts say. In 2021, the state saw 106 cases ...

The Houston Health Department announced a 128% increase in syphilis among women and a “nine-fold rise” in congenital syphilis cases — when a mother passes the infection to her baby during ...