{"id":608930,"date":"2024-02-17T00:08:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T21:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/maternal-syphilis-rates-tripled-between-2016-and-2022-cdc\/"},"modified":"2024-02-17T00:08:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T21:08:52","slug":"maternal-syphilis-rates-tripled-between-2016-and-2022-cdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/maternal-syphilis-rates-tripled-between-2016-and-2022-cdc\/","title":{"rendered":"#Maternal syphilis rates tripled between 2016 and 2022: CDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/gettyimages-1461207702-170667a-e1702560596166.jpg?w=509\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The number of expecting mothers with syphilis in the United States more than <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>led between 2016 and 2022, according to a recent CDC study. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Between those years, the overall rate of syphilis among pregnant women in the country increased from 87.2 per 100,000 births to 280.4 per 100,000 births. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Syphilis cases have risen to levels not seen since the 1950s among the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> population, according to the CDC. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cases of the bacterial infection have gone up by 17 percent in the last year and by 80 percent over the past five years. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Syphilis cases have risen among all U.S. mothers regardless of race or ethnicity, with the largest increase occurring among American Indian and Alaska Native mothers \u2014 159.7 cases per 100,000 births in 2016 to 1,410.5 cases per 100,000 births in 2022. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>White non-Hispanic mothers saw the second-largest uptick in cases with incidents of the disease rising from 36.8 cases per 100,000 births in 2016 to 152.8 cases per 100,000 births in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Expecting mothers of all age groups have also experienced increases in syphilis cases with the largest increase among mothers younger than 20 years old\u2014107.3 per 100,000 births in 2016 to 418.6 per 100,000 births in 2022. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a result, more newborns are contracting\u00a0syphilis, with over 3,700 babies born with the illness in 2022\u2014the most in the last 30 years. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The United States came close to eradicating syphilis in the 1990s, but rates of the disease began to creep up in the early 2000s, increasing almost every year until 2022, according to the CDC. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Without treatment, syphilis is life-threatening and can\u00a0cause brain, heart and other organ damage in adults. Congenital syphilis, or when the disease is passed from mother to baby during pregnancy, can cause stillbirth, preterm birth, anemia as well as brain and nerve damage. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2024 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4473269-maternal-syphilis-rates-tripled-cdc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of expecting mothers with syphilis in the United States more than tripled between 2016 and 2022, according to a recent CDC study. \u00a0 Between those years, the overall rate of syphilis among pregnant women in the country increased from 87.2 per 100,000 births to 280.4 per 100,000 births. \u00a0 Syphilis cases have risen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":608931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/gettyimages-1461207702-170667a-e1702560596166.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[117,134343,148751,134353,73014,148752,77014,70588],"class_list":["post-608930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-business","tag-campaign","tag-congenital-syphilis","tag-court-battles","tag-health-care","tag-maternal-health","tag-syphilis","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}