Syphilis in Pregnancy: A Preventable Tragedy We Keep Allowing to Happen

The JAMA findings on AI translation accuracy remind us that diagnosis is important, but communication is everything.

Syphilis is a curable bacterial infection. Yet congenital syphilis is rising at a rate that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. Pregnant women continue to present late, untreated, or misinformed. Fetuses continue to be harmed by a disease we have had the tools to prevent since the 1940s. The recent JAMA Network Open analysis on the accuracy of…