This is what to expect when conservative leaders eliminate reproductive health care and education: Texas saw a 22% jump in the number of syphilis cases from 2020 to nearly 26,000 cases in 2022, more than double the number of cases seen in 2017, the Texas Tribune reports.
In 2022, the number includes 950 cases of newborns with syphilis via infections passed along in pregnancy by an infected patient; that accounted for one-third of the 2,850 cases of congenital syphilis recorded in the US that year.