‘It’s a scandal’: Spiking congenital syphilis rates put babies in grave danger - Washington Post
‘It’s a scandal’: Spiking congenital syphilis rates put babies in grave danger - Washington Post ‘It’s a scandal’: Spiking congenital syphilis rates put babies in grave danger - Washington Post Posted: 30 Aug 2019 08:54 AM PDT "Every case of congenital syphilis that we see is an absolute, shameful failure of public health because it is completely preventable," said Khalil Ghanem, deputy director of education at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. "We in the United States, a very wealthy country, should not have the rates of congenital syphilis that we have. It's a scandal." Curable sexually transmitted diseases, in general, are on the rise around the world. The World Health Organization recently said that there are more than 1 million new sexually transmitted infections every day across the globe. In the United States, congenital syphilis, which had been declining from 2008 to 2012, has been sharply a...