While appropriate treatment of the pregnant female can prevent congenital syphilis, the major deterrent has been the inability to effectively identify these women and get them to undergo treatment.

The government has a role to play in solving the shortage of the only medication that can treat syphilis in pregnant people, Northeastern University experts say. "It's leaving people at the risk ...

The nation’s largest coalition of obstetricians issued an urgent warning Thursday calling on doctors to expand testing for syphilis during pregnancy amid a surge of cases in recent years.

Especially concerning, doctors say, are cases of congenital syphilis, where the infection is passed from a pregnant person to their fetus during pregnancy, which have nearly tripled in the same time ...

A resurgence of congenital syphilis in Victoria after a 25-year hiatus has prompted an overhaul of screening for pregnant ...

The disease can be deadly if left untreated and can lead to birth defects and miscarriages in pregnant women. The bacterial infection syphilis reached the highest rate of new infections since 1950 ...

Syphilis is on the rise in San Luis Obispo County, local medical officials warned. The sexually transmitted infection — which is most commonly spread through unprotected vaginal, anal, or oral ...

Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection that was previously more common in Japan among men, has sharply increased among young pregnant women and newborns, alarming experts. One in about 200 ...

Syphilis can cause rashes ... or other detrimental effects on the fetus if contracted during pregnancy. Sasaki Chiwawa, a writer who covers Japanese youth culture and sex work, says recruiters ...

Pregnancy itself does not seem to alter the clinical progression of syphilis in the female: As in the nonpregnant woman, the primary lesion (Fig. 2) can appear 10 to 90 days after the causative ...