Table 38. Congenital syphilis — Reported cases and rates in infants < 1 year of age by state, ranked by rates: United States, 2007

Rank*	State†	Cases	Rate per 100,000 Live Births
1	Louisiana	36	55.1
2	Arizona	30	32.0
3	Arkansas	12	31.1
4	Maryland	23	30.8
5	Texas	99	26.0
6	New Mexico	6	21.1
7	Nevada	7	19.9
8	California	87	16.0
9	Alabama	9	15.1
10	Michigan	14	10.8
	U.S. TOTAL‡	430	10.5
11	New Jersey	11	9.5
12	Florida	20	9.2
13	Georgia	9	6.5
14	New York	16	6.4
15	Oklahoma	3	5.8
16	North Carolina	7	5.8
17	Illinois	10	5.5
18	Pennsylvania	8	5.5
19	Tennessee	4	5.0
20	West Virginia	1	4.8
21	Connecticut	2	4.8
22	Oregon	2	4.4
23	Indiana	3	3.4
24	Colorado	2	2.9
25	Iowa	1	2.6
26	Washington	2	2.4
27	South Carolina	1	1.8
28	Wisconsin	1	1.4
29	Missouri	1	1.3
	YEAR 2010 TARGET		1.0
30	Virginia	1	1.0
31	Ohio	1	0.7
	Alaska	0	0.0
	Delaware	0	0.0
	Hawaii	0	0.0
	Idaho	0	0.0
	Kansas	0	0.0
	Kentucky	0	0.0
	Maine	0	0.0
	Massachusetts	0	0.0
	Minnesota	0	0.0
	Mississippi	0	0.0
	Montana	0	0.0
	Nebraska	0	0.0
	New Hampshire	0	0.0
	North Dakota	0	0.0
	Rhode Island	0	0.0
	South Dakota	0	0.0
	Utah	0	0.0
	Vermont	0	0.0
	Wyoming	0	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 the District of Columbia with 1 case and a rate of 12.6, but excludes outlying areas (Guam with 2 cases and rate of 58.6, Puerto Rico with 8 cases and rate of 15.6, and Virgin Islands with 0 cases and rate of 0.0).

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