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In Los Angeles, a Novel Plan to End Congenital Syphilis
California Health Report
Melissa Papp-Green opens her iPhone to a text about a syphilis test. The text offers Papp-Green, perched in a cubicle at the Los Angeles County public health department, a window into a doctor’s office miles away, where providers are confronting an epidemic of congenital syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease passed from mothers to newborns.