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Tribal Health Leaders Say Feds Haven’t Treated Syphilis Outbreak as a Public Health Emergency

KFF Health News

The public pleas for testing are part of health officials’ efforts to halt the outbreak that has disproportionately hurt Native Americans in the Great Plains and Southwest. And tribal health leaders say their calls for federal officials to declare a public health emergency have gone unheeded.