Word: gonorrhea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, in Sweden, premarital intercourse has been widely condoned, and the government provides legal abortions when deemed "in the mother's interest." The result, warned the doctors, has been a tide of extramarital pregnancies and mounting venereal disease-with most of the victims young people. Sweden's gonorrhea rate has jumped 75% in five years, and of last year's new cases, 52% were among teenagers...
...knocked around with some tough boys in his home town, Chicago, now prided himself on running one of the most popular striptease joints in Dallas. He carried a gun, was a cop buff, and loved to visit police headquarters. Medical reports later noted that Bachelor Ruby contracted gonorrhea no fewer than four times; he checked negative for syphilis. "He denies homosexuality, but is extremely sensitive should anybody accuse him of that and is very defensive," said a psychiatrist at Ruby's bond hearing. "He admits that he must adopt at times the feminine position during intercourse. His handling...
...sectarianism is promoted strongly by the "conspiracy of silence" or so-called "religious toleration." There is a deadly parallel between the "conspiracy of silence" on sectarianism today with the "conspiracy of silence" on the "social diseases" a few years ago. So long as people were "too nice" to mention gonorrhea and syphilis, these diseases went largely untreated and ate away at countless victims. Because we are "too nice" to call attention to the errors and other evils within one another's sectarianism, they eat away at our religious life. The less defensible the practices of a sect, the more...
...other areas, the story is the same. Washington reports more cases of gonorrhea than any city its size in the U.S.; its rate of illegitimate births is over three times the national average; welfare payments have nearly doubled since 1958. In 1961 a Senate subcommittee investigating aid to dependent children in the federal district discovered that 50% of aid recipients were ineligible. One mother of four, for example, had forced her husband to live away from home so that she could collect...
...World Health Organization has glumly reported "complete failure to control gonorrhea in spite of the very widespread use of antibiotics," but in the U.S., and other well-doctored countries, the available drugs and the new test should turn the tide. Elsewhere, the organization fears, the only hope lies in a protective vaccine, and none is yet in sight...