Medical professionals attribute the increasing cases of disease to inadequate prenatal healthcare and understaffed workforce
Number of babies who have been treated for the sexually transmitted disease increased by more than 900% over five years, state hospital data shows.Number of babies who have been treated for the sexually transmitted disease increased by more than 900% over five years, state hospital data shows.has registered an alarming rise in the number of infants being treated for congenital syphilis.
Ten newborns that were born in the poorest American state in 2016 received treatment for the disease. In 2021, 102 newborns were treated for the disease, including at least one who died, according to theSyphilis is a contagious disease that is mostly spread through sex, but babies can also contract the illness from infected mothers. The disease produces an ulcer in the area where it entered the body, which usually appears between 10 and 60 days after infection.
Congenital syphilis can cause a variety of issues in infants, including disfigured bones, severe anemia, enlarged liver and spleen, jaundice, brain and nerve problems such as blindness and deafness, meningitis and skin rashes. Depending on how long a mother has had syphilis and when – or if – they received treatment, the disease can also result in miscarriages, stillbirths, prematurity and low birth weight.
“This seems like something that should have happened a hundred years ago, not last year,” the medical director of the state health department-run Crossroads Clinic, Thomas Dobbs, told NBC. “There’s really kind of a shock,” said Dobbs, whose clinic is in the state capital of Jackson and who told the outlet that he spoke to healthcare providers who “are absolutely horrified” that babies are still being born with congenital syphilis.
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