While sexually transmitted disease rates for U.S. adults fell last year, syphilis in newborns​ continued to rise, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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But congenital syphilis cases, in which infected moms pass the disease to their babies, aren’t seeing the same improvements.