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Drugmaker Pfizer is warning doctors that it expects to run low on supplies of Bicillin L-A, a long-acting injection of the ...

Congenital syphilis, a condition where babies are infected with syphilis in the womb, is surging across the United States, including Virginia.

Syphilis, an STI caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum, has re-emerged as a major public health threat in the United States, with rates skyrocketing over the past decade. According to the CDC ...

Given the rarity of syphilitic complications (i.e., neuro-, tertiary and cardiac syphilis), it is unlikely that most serofast patients progress to later stages of syphilis.

Tannis and colleagues evaluated data from 1,476 women (median age, 27 years) with syphilis during pregnancy as of September 2023 from six participating jurisdictions in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan ...

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. The ...

There are four stages of syphilis, each with specific symptoms. In the primary stage, a person may develop sores at the site of infection, typically on the genitals, anus or mouth.