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Compared to 2012, more than 10 times as many congenital syphilis cases were reported in 2022, marking a 1,022% jump in newborn syphilis cases. Nearly 90% of the cases were preventable.

Babies are being born with syphilis at the highest rates in 30 years, according to the CDC

The CDC said the continued increase of newborn syphilis can be prevented by taking certain measures

Medicare may cover full cost of preexposure prophylaxis drugs; rules aim to prevent excessive compensation in Medicare Advantage (MA) market; health officials advocate for widespread syphilis testing and intervention.

Alarmed by yet another jump in syphilis cases in newborns, US health officials are calling for stepped-up prevention measures, including encouraging millions of women of childbearing...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention disclosed that syphilis cases in US newborns have spiked over 10 times in the past decade.

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.

BSIP/GettyNew data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the number of babies born with syphilis has risen by 10 times in the U.S. over the past decade. On Tuesday, the CDC reported that at least 3,700 newborns had congenital syphilis in 2022, a 32 percent increase from 2021, and 282 stillbirths and infant deaths occurred because of the bacterial infection, nearly 16 times more than the number of deaths in 2012. Babies can develop bone malformations, blindness, deafness,

“We must start thinking outside of the OB/GYN office.” Officials released a call to action to slow the spread of syphilis, which can be fatal to infants.