{"id":184718,"date":"2024-03-09T03:07:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T09:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/syphilis-cases-rise-to-their-highest-levels-since-the-1950s-cdc-says"},"modified":"2024-03-09T03:07:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T09:07:39","slug":"syphilis-cases-rise-to-their-highest-levels-since-the-1950s-cdc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/syphilis-cases-rise-to-their-highest-levels-since-the-1950s-cdc-says","title":{"rendered":"Syphilis cases rise to their highest levels since the 1950s, CDC says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/syphilis-cases-rise-to-their-highest-levels-since-the-1950s-cdc-says3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rates increased among all age groups, including newborns, and in all regions of the country. In 2022, 3,755 cases of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/std\/syphilis\/stdfact-congenital-syphilis.htm\">babies born with syphilis<\/a> in the U.S. were reported, which reflects an alarming 937% increase in the past decade, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/std\/statistics\/2022\/overview.htm\">the CDC said<\/a>. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report continued that racial and ethnic minorities are most disproportionately affected due to \u201clong standing social inequities that often lead to health inequalities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rates increased among all age groups, including newborns, and in all regions of the country. In 2022, 3,755 cases of babies born with syphilis in the U.S. were reported, which reflects an alarming 937% increase in the past decade, the CDC said. The report continued that racial and ethnic minorities are most disproportionately affected due [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}