syphilis

A year ago, Maryland health officials alerted each other about a spike in syphilis cases. Scott MacFarlane reports they were unsure how to warn doctors amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

During the same week the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Maryland in March 2020, state health officials alerted each other of the outbreak of another dangerous illness, according to internal emails and public records obtained by the News4 I-Team. The state faced a fast-rising number of congenital syphilis cases last spring — a spike that was potentially exacerbated and masked by…