{"id":1435,"count":2,"description":"For years, syphilis seemed to disappear from the U.S. and from Oklahoma. But in the past decade, cases have been skyrocketing \u2014 especially among women and newborns.\r\n\r\nRates are up across the country, and Oklahoma had the 4th highest rate of syphilis infections in 2020. Cases were going up long before the coronavirus pandemic made its way to Oklahoma, but public health workers say that only made the problem worse.","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/tag\/oklahoma-syphilis-problem\/","name":"Oklahoma has a syphilis problem. The pandemic made it worse.","slug":"oklahoma-syphilis-problem","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/1435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}