Syphilis -- Canada
Recent years have seen transmission grow exponentially among young women, raising the risk of babies acquiring the disease in the womb.
Of all the diseases Dr Rupeena Purewal was watching, syphilis was never at the top of the list. But the Saskatoon pediatric infectious disease doctor says the surging case numbers across Western Canada have suddenly made the disease an emerging issue, particularly for newborn children if their mother is infected during pregnancy. She is now part of a
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8381023&promed&0
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