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Low Cost Screening Could Halve Stillbirths Due To Syphilis

Published: July 20, 2011, 10:23 a.m.

b'London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Audio News: \\n\\nLow Cost Screening Could Halve Stillbirths Due To Syphilis\\nLONDON\\u2014Scientists from London and Switzerland have reported in The Lancet medical journal that a simple ante-natal screening test for syphilis and immediate treatment could halve the number of stillbirths caused by this infection \\u2014 at very low cost. David Mabey, Professor of Communicable Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine \\u2014 who wrote the accompanying comment article in The Lancet \\u2014 talks with Peter Goodwin about the importance of this finding.'