Christian Family Services Ministry

1-11-2017 – A Word to the Wise: Rarely, the symptoms of syphilis go undetected in infants. As infected infants become older children and teenagers, they may develop the symptoms of late-stage syphilis, including damage to their bones, teeth, eyes, ears, and brain. How many infants are affected by immorality on the part of the parent annually? According to the CDC, 800,000 pregnant women have bacterial vaginosis and herpes simplex; 200,000 have chlamydia; 80,000 have trichomoniasis; 40,000 have gonorrhea and Hepatitis B; and 8,000 have HIV and syphilis. 21 An estimated 440,000 children, who lost their mother or both parents to AIDS, were alive and under the age of 15 at the end of 1997.