Houston and Harris County health officials are urging testing after a 128% increase in cases among women.
Ikyaator says what people think of as an uncommon STI, is becoming more prevalent in our communities.
She also says it's mostly impacting women of childbearing age, and when women of childbearing age are impacted at this rate, so are children. The health department reports a spike in congenital syphilis, the number of babies being born with the infection went from just 16 cases in 2016, to 151 cases in 2021.
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