Drug Shortage Is Hampering Efforts to Rein In Alarming Surge of Syphilis Cases

Health experts say federal health authorities have failed to prevent this predictable emergency.

Karmin Strohfus, the lead nurse at a South Dakota jail, punched numbers into a phone like lives depended on it. She had in her care a pregnant woman with syphilis, a highly contagious, potentially fatal infection that can pass into the womb. A treatment could cure the woman and protect her fetus, but she couldn’t find it in stock at any pharmacy she called — not in Hughes County...

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