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The city is seeing a 128% increase in cases among women and a nine-fold rise in congenital syphilis in Houston and Harris County.
The disease can cause stillbirths, infant deaths and life-long health problems.
Infectious disease experts have warned that the shortage of antibiotics, specifically a type of penicillin used for syphilis, could worsen the sexually-transmitted infection’s (STI) epidemic in the United States. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced in a June 12 letter that the long-acting injectable antibiotic Bicillin L-A, formally penicillin G benzathine, currently has low supply. The same […]
Almost half of HIV transmission could be via mother to child, but stigma means many do not get tested for it or for syphilis and other dangerous STIs, or receive treatment.