Word: gonorrhea
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...have been lost on this generation of sexually active young adults. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a rise in cases of early-stage syphilis last year (up 29% from 2000, largely among gay men) and chlamydia (up nearly 6% since 2003). By contrast, rates of gonorrhea dipped to their lowest level since 1941, when record-keeping began...
...study, he observes, "is the first baseline that we've had in these areas. It's difficult to identify trends if we've never had confirmed data." What he and others can say for sure, however, is that oral sex carries plenty of dangers of its own, including syphilis, gonorrhea and herpes, as well as papilloma virus, which can cause cervical cancer. "Since we have evidence that kids are engaging in oral sex," says Rachel Jones of the Alan Guttmacher Institute in New York City, "we need to provide them with information about the public-health consequences and how they...
...success of a few products has inspired a host of others. Miles Laboratories sells a test for urinary-tract infections, Medical Frontiers markets a product called V.D. Alert to test for gonorrhea, and Thermascan expects to have a home check for breast diseases, including cancer, ready by 1987. Creative Strategies predicts that sales of self-care products will reach $1.8 billion by 1988, and Marketing Communications magazine has suggested that handy medical devices could become as ubiquitous as wristwatches...
...suddenly on the morning of the contest, The Game was cancelled. According to an extra edition of the Yale Daily News, 16 football players had come down with gonorrhea contracted from three Yale cheerleaders in a party after the Brown game six weeks earlier. Harvard had won by forfeit...
During the course of writing, the scope of the rampaging disease was pruned down to 16 starters with gonorrhea. Five thousand copies were run off by the Crimson and a marauding band of editors had put one by every Yalie’s door by dawn that Saturday...