Syphilis

Prevalence Among U.S. Women And Infants Has Declined

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 19th, 2001

The syphilis rate among infants in 2000 declined by 51% since 1997, the year before the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a national campaign to eliminate the disease in the United States.

In 2000, only 529 cases of congenital syphilis (CS) (13.4 cases per 100,000 live births) were reported in the United States, compared with 1,077 cases, (27.8 cases per 100,000 live births) in 1997. These data were published in the July 13, 2001, issue of CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

CDC also released data indicating that primary and secondary syphilis rates among women of reproductive age - age 15 to 44 years -...

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