Table 40. Congenital Syphilis — Reported Cases and Rates of Reported Cases by State, Ranked by Rates, United States, 2018

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Rank*	State†	Cases	Rate per 100,000 Live Births
1	Texas	367	92.2
2	Nevada	31	85.5
3	Louisiana	46	72.8
4	Arizona	61	72.2
5	California	332	67.9
6	Arkansas	25	65.3
7	Florida	108	48.0
8	New Mexico	10	40.5
9	Maryland	29	39.7
	US TOTAL‡	1,306	33.1
10	Georgia	31	23.8
11	Oklahoma	12	22.8
12	Missouri	17	22.8
13	Hawaii	4	22.1
14	Oregon	10	22.0
15	Kansas	8	21.0
16	Illinois	29	18.8
17	Kentucky	9	16.2
18	South Carolina	9	15.7
19	Tennessee	12	14.9
20	Ohio	20	14.5
21	Minnesota	10	14.3
22	North Carolina	17	14.1
23	New Jersey	13	12.7
24	New York	28	12.0
25	Alabama	7	11.8
26	Michigan	13	11.5
27	Colorado	7	10.5
28	Alaska	1	8.9
29	Virginia	9	8.8
30	New Hampshire	1	8.2
31	South Dakota	1	8.1
32	Mississippi	3	7.9
33	Washington	7	7.7
34	Iowa	3	7.6
35	Pennsylvania	9	6.5
36	Connecticut	2	5.6
37	West Virginia	1	5.2
38	Idaho	1	4.4
39	Utah	1	2.0
40	Wisconsin	1	1.5
41	Indiana	1	1.2
	Delaware	0	0.0
	Maine	0	0.0
	Massachusetts	0	0.0
	Montana	0	0.0
	Nebraska	0	0.0
	North Dakota	0	0.0
	Rhode Island	0	0.0
	Vermont	0	0.0
	Wyoming	0	0.0

* States were ranked by rate, then by case count, then in alphabetical order, with rates shown rounded to the nearest tenth.

† Mother’s state of residence was used to assign case.

‡ Total includes cases reported by the District of Columbia with 0 cases and a rate of 0.0 cases per 100,000 live births, but excludes territories.

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