Word: gonorrhea
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...legal), changes in technology that create new, inviting environments for organisms and, most notably, by casual intimacies encouraged by the sexual revolution. As many as 20 million Americans may now suffer from genital herpes, an incurable but nonfatal disease. In addition, an estimated 1 million new cases of gonorrhea and 100,000 of syphillis are reported each year. "What may be different these days is the number of persons who can be exposed in a short period," says Dr. William Foege, 47, director of the CDC. "The average AIDS victim has had 60 different sexual partners in the past twelve...
Herpes is hardly the worst disease in the world, or even the worst venereal disease. Untreated, syphilis and gonorrhea do far more damage. But few modern ailments have altered so much basic behavior so quickly. Perhaps the reason is its sudden upsurge and incurability. As many family doctors put it: "It won't kill you, but you won't kill it either." "Herpes is a puzzle, an enigma," says Dr. John Grossman, a Washington, D.C., gynecologist. "The medical community doesn't do very well with viruses anyway, and with this one, our bodies aren't able to give...
...herpes patient who believes in frankness is Paul Morris, 33, a fan-belt salesman in Houston. He caught herpes in 1976. Dr. A. a general practitioner, said it was syphilis or gonorrhea. Dr. B. a dermatologist, thought it was an unknown skin ailment, and Dr. C. a specialist in infectious diseases, could not identify it but was positive it was not herpes. Only Dr. D. an old friend, had the wit to take a culture that showed the problem was herpes. When Morris informed the woman who gave it to him, she brushed it off with "No big deal." Morris...
...that virile swashbuckler as bisexual. In The Untold Story, Charles Higham tries to make a case that Errol Flynn was also sexually ambivalent-and argues, not quite convincingly, that Flynn was a Nazi agent of some sort. In This Life, Sidney Poitier confesses to catching an adolescent case of gonorrhea, and in Please Don't Shoot My Dog, Jackie Cooper claims to have been the teen-age lover of Joan Crawford. Some of this brings back memories of Hedy Lamarr's 1966 autobiography, Ecstasy and Me: My Life As a Woman, which wound up telling so much that...
...more antibiotics came into use, nature fought back, creating more resistant bacteria. When first used, penicillin was nearly 100% effective against the most prevalent Staphylococci aureus that spread hospital-related infection among patients. Today the drug is far less effective. Both tetracycline and penicillin, once used to cure gonorrhea, now have a failure rate of more than 20% against certain strains. For years a growing body of evidence has suggested that the overuse of antibiotics is helping to make the miracle drugs less effective. Last week a group of 150 doctors and medical scientists from 26 nations issued reports calling...