While sexually transmitted disease rates for U.S. adults fell last year, syphilis in newborns continued to rise, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In the provisional data from 2024, released Wednesday, the total number of cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis declined 9% from 2023, down a third consecutive year.

Gonorrhea cases declined for the third year in a row, while chlamydia and primary and secondary syphilis cases declined for the second year in a row.

Congenital syphilis, however, where moms pass the infection to their babies, increased for the 12th year in a row, with nearly 4,000 reported cases in 2024, the data showed.

"There were still more than 2.2 million reported STIs in 2024, and compared to a decade ago, overall cases

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