Word: gonorrhea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pneumonia, syphilis, gonorrhea, diphtheria, scarlet fever and many wound and childbirth infections that once killed indiscriminately suddenly became treatable. As deaths caused by bacterial infections plummeted, a grateful world needed a hero. Fleming alone became such an object of public adulation, probably for two reasons. First, Florey shunned the press, while Fleming seemed to revel in the publicity. Second, and perhaps more important, it was easier for the admiring public to comprehend the deductive insight of a single individual than the technical feats of a team of scientists...
...four Americans will contract an STI some time in their lives. Some viral STIs including genital herpes and genital warts can be transmitted via skin-to-skin contact, and are incurable. In up to 75 percent of individuals infected with chlamydia (the most common STI on college campuses), gonorrhea, and/or other bacterial infection, symptoms never appear. However, if left untreated, these infection often lead to complications such as sterility, cervical cancer, and/or pelvic inflammatory disease. STI infection should be of particular concern to sexually active women, as infection are more easily transmitted to women than to men. In addition, health...
According to CNN, "The United States has an estimated 10 million to 12 million new cases of STDs annually--the highest rate among industrialized countries worldwide." Of the top 10 diseases reported each year by the Centers for Disease Control, five are STDs: chlamydia, gonorrhea, AIDS, syphilis and hepatitis B. Their rapid spread in the U.S. reveals that STDs are not just a by-product of biological realities, but of social and cultural ones as well. This week's announcement is an indicator that a set of problems once considered private is so widespread that it has become public...
...with crazy papers for life. But you don't put a foot to Billie Faye's neck without her biting your leg, so she grabbed Michelle and ran. The hell with the courts. She ran for Michelle and for herself and for women wronged, and only when Michelle developed gonorrhea did she come out of hiding, certain the courts would believe her now about what a pervert Roger Jones was and what fools they all had been. But they didn't. And Michelle was lost to her again...
...long series of horror stories. For years now people have been reading about -- and suffering from -- all sorts of new and resurgent diseases. As if AIDS were not enough to worry about, there was a rise in other sexually transmitted infections, including herpes, syphilis and gonorrhea. People heard about the victims who died in the Northwest from eating undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers tainted with a hazardous strain of E. coli bacteria. They were told to cook their chicken thoroughly to avoid food poisoning from salmonella bacteria. And last year they saw how the rare hantavirus, once unknown...