Federal health officials are sounding the alarm about a "dire" and "alarming" increase in the number of babies born with syphilis, which can cause lifelong health problems and even death for newborns.

Congenital syphilis cases -- when a mother passes syphilis onto her baby during pregnancy or delivery -- have more than doubled in the United States since 2013, according to an report released Tuesday ...

Newborn syphilis cases, which can be fatal, have risen more than tenfold in the last decade and almost 32% in a single year, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

This 1966 microscope photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a tissue sample with the presence of numerous, corkscrew-shaped, darkly-stained, Treponema pallidum ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (KDKA) -- The Pennsylvania Department of Health is encouraging pregnant women to ask their health care providers about getting tested as nationwide cases of newborn syphilis are rising ...

Little to no prenatal care, lack of testing for pregnant people and insufficient treatment of pregnant people with syphilis contributed to the increase. Getty Images/iStockphoto A disease among ...

Rates of syphilis in newborn babies have risen astronomically since 2012, largely because pregnant women have not been getting screened as often as they once were, according to a new report. The ...

A "rapidly accelerating epidemic" of syphilis in newborns across the U.S. last year left 32 Arizona babies dead, and both local and federal health officials are calling for stepped-up awareness and ...

In a startling revelation in the health community, cases of syphilis among newborns has risen at dramatic and alarming numbers, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...