This week the Centers for Disease Control released data showing an increase in several forms of sexually transmitted infection, including a 32% increase in syphilis between 2021 and 2021. Public Health of Seattle King County (Public Health) says it, too, has been seeing a rise in syphilis, particularly accelerating among people having contact that could result in pregnancy. Public Health says many of the new cases are "concentrated in a vulnerable population of people who are often living homeless and/or using substances." The agency is particularly concerned with a rise in congenital syphilis, which it says occurs when a fetus acquires the infection in the uterus before birth. According to Public Health, there were three cases of congenital syphilis in 2019, 11 in 2021 and 12 in 2022. Read the full story here: https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/king-county-rise-in-syphilis-cases/281-d258454c-9ac3-49f6-bb7b-78088d053189