Itemoids

Johnson

This infection is preventable in infants if it's caught in time, so why is it on the rise?

CNN

www.cnn.com › 2023 › 03 › 01 › health › congenital-syphilis-alarming-rise › index.html

This story seems to be about:

Venus Johnson entered the world clinging to life. She stopped breathing shortly after delivery, and doctors massaged her tiny chest and held her upside down to clear her lungs of thick mucus, the result of an infection she caught in the womb: congenital syphilis.