Óscar A. Contreras is a Murrow-nominated journalist who has been writing for the E.W. Scripps Company since January 2014.
DENVER — Colorado is ramping up its response to combat a growing syphilis epidemic following an"alarming increase" in cases among newborns over the past several years.
In Colorado, cases have more than tripled from 1,084 in 2018 to 3,266 in 2023, said state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy, but more worrisome were the number of cases among babies, which increased seven-fold across the state within that same time frame. “Finding cases and getting people treated early in the disease process is our goal,” Ryan said as she announced she was issuing a public health order “which will give women the opportunity to be tested and treated to prevent our youngest residents from experiencing the long-term consequences of an in-utero syphilis infection, or worse, stillborn or newborn death.”
Of the 634 incarcerated people who were screed for syphilis since the pilot program started, 182, or 26.7%, were positive for the disease, Lucero said. Of the 634 people screened, 27 were pregnant and 7 of those were positive for syphilis. People who contract syphilis don’t always show signs or symptoms that they have the disease, meaning someone who is infected with syphilis can spread the infection to someone else without knowing it, Herlihy said.“It can result in a variety of complications to the heart, to blood vessels, to the brain. It can cause seizures, it can cause meningitis-type symptoms, it can cause dementia, it can cause hearing loss, it can cause blindness,” Herlihy said.
Sexually active people can get syphilis through vaginal, anal, or oral sex without a condom with a partner who has syphilis, regardless of sexual orientation.
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