Congenital syphilis up 38% in the US in recent years
by Staff from Outbreak News Today on (#TDWR)
After a period of decline from 2008 to 2012 when the overall rate of reported congenital syphilis (CS) decreased from 10.5 to 8.4 cases per 100,000 live births, rates increased by 38 percent from 2012 to 2014 (total cases increased from 334 to 458 cases), according to a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). This ["]
