Word: gonorrhea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...knew it was our turn for a fake issue, but we never thought it would get this big." Brad Graham, Daily News managing editor, said yesterday. The current series of fakes was inaugurated in 1969 when The Crimson reported that 16 members of the Eli football team had contracted gonorrhea and had to forfeit the Yale-Harvard game...
...only virtue of gonorrhea is that in men, at least, it usually produces early, painful symptoms that alert its victim. But not always. A team headed by Dr. H. Hunter Handsfield of the University of Washington told a meeting of the American Public Health Association last week that servicemen returning from Viet Nam may carry a "silent" form of the disease, one which produces no symptoms in the carrier but may flare into active disease once the infection is transmitted to a sexual partner. The team bases its warning on a study of 2,000 Viet Nam veterans, which showed...
...these hopes were dashed on Saturday morning. November 22. Sixteen players including the entire defensive backfield and most of the defensive line, had contracted gonorrhea from three cheerleaders at a party in Providence six weeks before THE game reported an Extra edition of the Yale Daily News, had been canceled. Yale had forfeited...
Underwritten by the 3M Company (Scotch tape, etc.), which contributed $105,000 of the show's $140,000 cost, VD Blues is, in fact, as timely as anything that is likely to appear on TV this fall. Gonorrhea, which many people may believe was eliminated with the advent of penicillin, is epidemic in the U.S. today, and even more dangerous syphilis is not far behind. According to public health authorities, there were 700,000 cases of gonorrhea reported in the first six months of 1972, with many thousands more unreported...
...message, of course, is that both gonorrhea and syphilis can be cured by penicillin and other antibiotics if caught in time - but that the crucial first step is to face the realities of the diseases and overcome inhibitions about reporting them...