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The Houston Health Department released a syphilis outbreak reports. The city have seen an increase of about 128 percent of cases among women and nine-fold rise in congenital syphilis.
The Health Department reports, cases among women totaled 674 cases in 2022, up from 295 cases in 2019. Congenital syphilis soared from 16 cases in 2016 to 151 cases in 2021, the latest year for which statistics are available.
