{"id":5173,"date":"2023-11-07T21:41:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T03:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2023-11-07T21:41:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T03:41:52","slug":"infants-are-born-with-syphilis-in-growing-numbers-a-sign-of-a-wider-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/11\/07\/infants-are-born-with-syphilis-in-growing-numbers-a-sign-of-a-wider-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Infants Are Born With Syphilis in Growing Numbers, a Sign of a Wider Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/07\/health\/syphilis-babies.html\">New York Times<\/a> Congenital syphilis has become more than ten times as common over the past decade, the C.D.C. reported. \u201cThe situation is dire,\u201d said one expert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rise in sexually transmitted infections in the United States has taken a particularly tragic turn: More than 3,700 cases of congenital syphilis were reported in 2022, roughly 11 times the number recorded a decade ago, according to data released on Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Syphilis during pregnancy can lead to miscarriage and stillbirth, and infants who survive may become blind or deaf, or have severe developmental delays. In 2022, the disease caused 231 stillbirths and 51 infant deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly 90 percent of the new cases could have been prevented with timely testing and treatment, according to the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSyphilis in babies continues to increase, and the situation is dire,\u201d Dr. Laura Bachmann, chief medical officer at the agency\u2019s division for prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, said in an interview. \u201cWe need to do things differently.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/07\/health\/syphilis-babies.html\">Continued reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"VFCvlBUKk V\"><!-- VFCvlBUKk V --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times Congenital syphilis has become more than ten times as common over the past decade, the C.D.C. reported. \u201cThe situation is dire,\u201d said one expert. The rise in sexually transmitted infections in the United States has taken a particularly tragic turn: More than 3,700 cases of congenital syphilis were reported in 2022, roughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-07-at-22.40.50.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5175,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions\/5175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}