Dr. John Vanchiere:
Yes.
We have been watching this trend for several decades now. Syphilis case counts in the United States are higher than they have been for about two decades, almost three. And what that means is, in adult cases, there are 175,000 cases a year or more. And these are really spillover to babies who can’t fight the disease.
And babies get infected, obviously, because their moms get syphilis. And if we treat mom during pregnancy, if we can diagnose it during pregnancy and treat, most of those babies are protected and safe and don’t have any complications.
Part of what we’re focusing on with this new data is that there’s a large number that are preventable; 90 percent, by estimate, are preventable cases of babies infected with syphilis.
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