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Article: Congenital syphilis declined in 2000-2002.(Infectious Diseases)
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- Pediatric News
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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The incidence of congenital syphilis declined 21% between 2000 and 2002, with the largest decreases occurring in the groups where the incidence had been highest--racial and ethnic minorities and women living in the South--the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
There were 578 reported cases in this country in 2000 and 451 cases in 2002, ac cording to the federal agency's surveillance.
The decreases continue a pattern of decline in syphilis seen throughout the 1990s and follow the 1999 implementation of the National Plan to Eliminate Syphilis (MMWR 2004;53:716-9).
Between 1997 and 2002, the incidence rate of congenital syphilis ...