Syphilis Pregnancy
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Pfizer warns of looming penicillin shortage in the U.S. What about Canada?A shortage of Bicillin, an effective drug used to treat syphilis in pregnant patients and bacterial infections in children, could run dry by the end of June, Pfizer has warned.CanadaJun 16, 2023
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Syphilis cases in babies on the rise in Canada. Doctors point to health-care ‘failures’While syphilis has made a global resurgence over the last five years, Canada is an outlier among wealthy nations in its rate of increase: 13-fold over five years.CanadaMar 31, 2023
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B.C. records first cases of congenital syphilis in 6 years amid STI outbreakHealth officials say they've recorded the first cases of a mother passing the disease on to a child since 2013, while overall rates are up 33 per cent.Oct 7, 2019
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