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Table 40.    Congenital syphilis — Reported cases and rates in infants <1 year of age by state, ranked by rates: United States, 2003 

Rank* 

State

Cases 

Rate per 100,000 Live Births

 

Arizona 

29 

33.0 

 

 

Michigan 

38 

29.2 

 

 

New Mexico 

21.6 

 

 

Texas 

77 

20.7 

 

 

South Carolina 

11 

20.2 

 

 

Idaho 

19.1 

 

 

New Jersey 

21 

18.3 

 

 

Indiana 

15 

17.6 

 

 

New York 

42 

16.7 

 

10 

 

North Carolina 

18 

15.3 

 

11 

 

Florida 

26 

12.6 

 

12 

 

California 

59 

11.1 

 

13 

 

Maryland 

10.9 

 

14 

 

Illinois 

19 

10.5 

 
   

U.S. TOTAL§ 

413 

10.3 

 

15 

 

Georgia 

11 

8.3 

 

16 

 

Missouri 

5.3 

 

17 

 

Arkansas 

5.3 

 

18 

 

Alabama 

5.1 

 

19 

 

Mississippi 

4.8 

 

20 

 

Colorado 

4.4 

 

21 

 

Nebraska 

3.9 

 

22 

 

Tennessee 

2.6 

 

23 

 

Kansas 

2.5 

 

24 

 

Connecticut 

2.4 

 

25 

 

Ohio 

2.0 

 

26 

 

Oklahoma 

2.0 

 

27 

 

Kentucky 

1.8 

 

28 

 

Louisiana 

1.5 

 

29 

 

Pennsylvania 

1.4 

 

30 

 

Virginia 

1.0 

 
   

YEAR 2010 TARGET 

1.0 

 
   

Alaska 

0.0 

 
   

Delaware 

0.0 

 
   

Hawaii 

0.0 

 
   

Iowa 

0.0 

 
   

Maine 

0.0 

 
   

Massachusetts 

0.0 

 
   

Minnesota 

0.0 

 
   

Montana 

0.0 

 
   

Nevada 

0.0 

 
   

New Hampshire 

0.0 

 
   

North Dakota 

0.0 

 
   

Oregon 

0.0 

 
   

Rhode Island 

0.0 

 
   

South Dakota 

0.0 

 
   

Utah 

0.0 

 
   

Vermont 

0.0 

 
   

Washington 

0.0 

 
   

West Virginia 

0.0 

 
   

Wisconsin 

0.0 

 
   

Wyoming 

0.0 

 

*States were ranked in descending order by rate, number of cases, and alphabetically by state. States with no cases were not ranked. 

Mother's state of residence used to assign case. 

§Total includes cases reported by Washington, D.C. but excludes outlying areas (Guam with 1 case and rate of 31.1, Puerto Rico with 15 cases and rate of 28.4, and Virgin Islands with 0 cases and rate of 0.0). 

 

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