Syphilis cases in babies skyrocket in Canada amid healthcare 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.

The numbers of babies born with syphilis in Canada are rising at a far faster rate than recorded in the United States or Europe, an increase public health experts said is driven by increased methamphetamine use and lack of access to the public health system for Indigenous people.