Following an over 200% increase in congenital syphilis cases in the U.S., groups are urging the White House to address a drug shortage. In July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

and the rate for Indigenous babies is 8-times higher than those born to White mothers. Congenital syphilis may cause stillbirth, miscarriages, vision or hearing loss, intellectual disability and more.

In the decade she’d been at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, she rarely tested babies for congenital syphilis ... more than nine times the rate for white babies which sat at 11.5 per ...

In the married group, there were 10 (1.4 per cent) positive Hinton tests, 3 of them (0.6 per cent) in white and 7 (3.7 per cent) in Negro women. What was the incidence of syphilis in the mothers ...