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Article: Congenital Syphilis a Problem Despite Advances.
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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DENVER -- Congenital syphilis remains a serious public health problem even though the national rate plunged by 71% from 1992 to 1997, Dr. Deborah Gust maintained at a meeting of the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research.
The most common missed opportunities for prevention of congenital syphilis are lack of early prenatal care and delayed or inadequate syphilis therapy added Dr. Gust of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
The incidence of congenital syphilis as reported to the CDC in 1997 was 27 cases per 100,000 live births. Rates were highest in the South and lowest in the West.
The congenital ...