Syphilis in Pregnant Women Surges Post-Pandemic as Health Crisis Deepens

Pregnant women and newborns face serious health risks from congenital syphilis, including birth defects, stillbirth, and neonatal complications.

A disease once considered a relic of less medically advanced eras has returned to haunt the most vulnerable — pregnant women and their unborn children — not because medicine forgot how to stop it, but because the systems meant to deliver that medicine quietly collapsed. Across the United States, syphilis infections among expectant mothers have climbed to rates unseen in decades, a direct inheritance of pandemic-era disruptions to prenatal care and antibiotic supply chains. The tragedy at the center of this story is not scientific mystery but systemic failure: a curable infection, requiring onl

Syphilis in Pregnant Women Surges Post-Pandemic as Health Crisis Deepens

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