Of infants born to mothers with primary or secondary syphilis, up to 50% will be premature, stillborn, or die in the neonatal period; further, most of these children are born with congenital ...

Concerns have also been raised about children copying what they see in ... declined by 79 per cent for chlamydia, 80 per cent for syphilis, and 12 per cent for gonorrhoea, according to the ...

In 2022, an astounding 207,255 cases of syphilis were reported in the U.S. Particularly alarming is the increase in children ...

Syphilis cases in the Americas reach their highest levels since the 1950s, with alarming congenital syphilis increases.

Congenital syphilis can cause rashes, and abnormalities in bones shortly after birth. The infected children can develop symptoms such as inflammation of the eyes and hearing loss in a few years ...

She says she has helped children as young as 12. "The biggest thing we find is that when someone has tested positive for syphilis, they are so ashamed they don't even want to come into the clinic ...

Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection ... The survey received responses from 1,346 medical institutions nationwide that deliver children. It found that 18 of 3,504 pregnant teens, or 0. ...

Saskatchewan is seeing an increase in the number of women being infected with syphilis while pregnant. They can pass the disease on to their unborn child. (Panom Pensawang/Shutterstock ...