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Mississippi hit by 900% increase in newborns treated for syphilis
NBC News ^ | February 11, 2023 | Bracey Harris

Posted on 02/12/2023 11:51:02 AM PST by grundle

Edited on 02/12/2023 11:52:28 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

"This seems like something that should have happened a hundred years ago, not last year," the state's former health officer said.

JACKSON, Miss. — The number of babies in Mississippi being treated for congenital syphilis has jumped by more than 900% over five years, uprooting the progress the nation’s poorest state had made in nearly quashing what experts say is an avoidable public health crisis. The rise in cases has placed newborns at further risk of life-threatening harm in a state that’s already home to the nation’s worst infant mortality rate.


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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: children; disease; mississippi; sangersnotwrong; suddenly; syphilis
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1 posted on 02/12/2023 11:51:02 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Jackson Mississippi. This is where its exploding in Mississippi.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/jacksoncitymississippi/BZA115220


2 posted on 02/12/2023 11:54:06 AM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: grundle

democRATs...that is the problem


3 posted on 02/12/2023 11:55:55 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: grundle
"This seems like something that should have happened a hundred years ago, not last year," the state's former health officer said.

The Bible exists as a "how-to" and "self-help" manual for human existence.

Ignore it at your peril

4 posted on 02/12/2023 11:58:02 AM PST by PGR88 (, )
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To: grundle

The amish strike again.


5 posted on 02/12/2023 12:05:03 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: grundle

SMH. So preventable


6 posted on 02/12/2023 12:09:20 PM PST by Nifster ( EI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: grundle

Planned Parenthood doesn’t offer pregnant minorities penicillin, I see. Falls perfectly in-line with Sanger’s vision for the organization.


7 posted on 02/12/2023 12:13:22 PM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: grundle

Someone hasn’t gotten their shots and boosters.


8 posted on 02/12/2023 12:20:11 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: grundle

Unrestricted immigration from third world crap holes doesn’t help.


9 posted on 02/12/2023 12:33:37 PM PST by rllngrk33 (It seems the soap box and ballot box have failed, it might be time for the bullet box.)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg; grundle
Planned Parenthood doesn’t offer pregnant minorities penicillin..."

Haven't you heard? Penicillin is white, therefore it is racist.


10 posted on 02/12/2023 12:33:49 PM PST by Towed_Jumper (What do I think about Joe Biden? I could carve a better man out of a banana.)
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To: grundle
In 2021, 102 newborns in Mississippi were treated for the sexually transmitted disease, up from 10 in 2016,
11 posted on 02/12/2023 12:36:04 PM PST by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: grundle

Time to unbox the old books, pamphlet s on self mastery and control???? Not Boy Scouts any more.


12 posted on 02/12/2023 12:42:16 PM PST by amihow (It is Western Civilization that confers privilege, not whiteness. Ask Carson, MLK, Sowell.)
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To: realcleanguy

Interesting fact about Jackson, Mississippi:
Jackson sits atop the extinct Jackson Volcano, located 2,900 feet (880 m) underground. It is the only capital city in the United States to have this feature. The buried peak of the volcano is located directly below the Mississippi Coliseum.

2020 Demographics:
Black — 78.55%
White — 16.54%
Hispanic — 2.09%


13 posted on 02/12/2023 12:45:03 PM PST by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: grundle

Bet the public health people could trace this to less than 10 guys.


14 posted on 02/12/2023 12:54:12 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: rllngrk33

“Unrestricted immigration from third world crap holes doesn’t help.”

The population of Jackson, MS is 53.8% female and 82.8% black/AA. Only 1.5% are Hispanic/Latino.
This is all homegrown problems from a certain demographic.
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/jacksoncitymississippi/BZA115220


15 posted on 02/12/2023 1:09:29 PM PST by oldvirginian (A friend helps you move furniture. A Real friend helps you move bodies. )
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To: realcleanguy

I used to teach in an all black hs in Jackson MS and when the blood drive would come by they’d half to throw out half the blood donated because of STDs a nurse there told me. I said, “what? you’re kidding,” and she nodded and said, “well, it’s more than half.”


16 posted on 02/12/2023 1:21:59 PM PST by struggle
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To: grundle

Attention Ladies and Gentlemen:

Gentlemen: Only ever stick it in your wife.

Ladies: Only ever spread ‘em for your husband.


17 posted on 02/12/2023 1:24:13 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: struggle

Crazy


18 posted on 02/12/2023 1:32:39 PM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: MtnClimber

I call them the Demon-Rats.

In this case, involving newborns Demon fits.


19 posted on 02/12/2023 1:44:26 PM PST by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: grundle

Is this the dump without drinking water?


20 posted on 02/12/2023 1:57:03 PM PST by EEGator
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