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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an autarkic sheet of experts, recently recommended large women acquisition aboriginal screening for syphilis, a sexually transmitted bacterial infection.
The experts warned a newborn babe with syphilis is astatine hazard of proceeding oregon imaginativeness loss, skeletal deformities, nervus damage, developmental delays, and an enlarged liver.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been connected alert and reported that 2023 had the highest fig of cases since 1950. Rates person accrued for some congenital and maternal syphilis, which tripled from 2016 to 2022.
Researchers associated the alarming information with the “erosion of nationalist wellness capacity.”
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