Syphilis -- Australia
A 6th infant has died from syphilis amid a devastating outbreak of the disease in parts of remote Australia. The young children have all died in Queensland, where the spate of cases emerged in 2011. Department of Health official Sharon Appleyard told Senate Estimates that 6 of 13 infants with reported cases of congenital syphilis had died. The latest death occurred in northern Queensland in January [2018].
The bacterial outbreak is severely impacting indigenous communities and has now
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