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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Karen Brooks Harper and Jayme Lozano Carver

‘An epidemic’: Syphilis rages through Texas, causing newborn cases to climb amid treatment shortage

An HIV/STI testing and treatment van in Philadelphia, PA, on Dec. 14, 2022.
An HIV/STI testing and treatment van in Philadelphia, PA, on Dec. 14, 2022. (Credit: Photo by Cory Clark/NurPhoto)

About twice a week, a pregnant patient turns up in Dr. Irene Stafford’s obstetrics office in Houston with syphilis, a sexually transmittable disease that affects more newborns in Texas than anywhere else in the country.

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