In the study, the highest risk of maternal syphilis was found in Black mothers, women aged 24 and under, unmarried women, and ...

Syphilis spreads primarily through vaginal, anal or oral sex, Shen explains. Condoms greatly reduce risk, but they do not ...

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Public health experts attribute this alarming trend to two main factors: the nature of the disease itself, and persistent gaps in our nation’s healthcare infrastructure. Syphilis is sometimes called ...

Art historians say the most famous painting of congenital syphilis is “The Inheritance” by Norwegian expressionist painter Eduard Munch, who in 1899 shocked European audiences by showing a young ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says congenital syphilis numbers have more than tripled since 1994. Syphilis is a sexually-transmitted disease, a bacterial ...

Newborn syphilis cases, which can be fatal, have risen more than tenfold in the last decade and almost 32% in a single year, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection. Without treatment, the stages of syphilis include symptoms that worsen over time. They can lead to severe or possibly fatal complications. Syphilis is a ...

A rare sexually transmitted fungus has been in the news recently after it was reported for the first time in the U.S. The first U.S. case of Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII, or TMVII for short, ...