The main objective of this initiative is to eliminate congenital syphilis and mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2015.
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The CDC is working to eliminate all congenital syphilis ( passed from mothers to babies ) and reduce adult syphilis to a very low level.
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The victims of the study included numerous men who died of syphilis, 40 wives who contracted the disease, and 19 children born with congenital syphilis.
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:Sure, see congenital syphilis, and why do you think silver drops were routinely put in the eyes of newborns for most of the last century?
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The primary route of transmission is through sexual activity; it may also be transmitted from mother to fetus during pregnancy or at birth, resulting in congenital syphilis.
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They believed these seven patients had mistakenly been diagnosed as congenital syphilis or rickets, which remain the primary considerations in the differential diagnosis of this syndrome today.
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The victims of the study, all African American, included numerous men who died of syphilis, 40 wives who contracted the disease, and 19 children born with congenital syphilis.
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SYPHILIS _ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that, after three years of intense effort, they have cut the rate of congenital syphilis in the country by 50 percent.
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The city's pediatricians are now seeing about 50 cases of congenital syphilis a year, a disease they only used to read about, said the hospital's pediatric epidemiologist, Dr . Emilia Bashenova.
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For example, the report cited a study in Haiti that found that babies born to mothers treated with antiretroviral drugs to prevent the transmission of HIV might then die of congenital syphilis.
