Word: gonorrhea
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...This is my uterus! Private property!" huffs Actor James Coco. "Please," says Robert Drivas, playing the tired claim jumper. "I've been swimming up that cervix for hours." The scene is as bizarre-and funny-as it sounds, but the message is purely educational. For Coco is a gonorrhea bacillus, and Drivas, his rival, is syphilis. Their little one-acter is part of an unprecedentedly frank one-hour special about the dangers of venereal disease that will be aired by the Public Broadcasting System next week...
Another indication of the reality of youthful sex is the rising incidence of VD, which has now reached epidemic proportions in high schools and colleges. After the ordinary cold, syphilis and gonorrhea are the most common infectious diseases among young people, outranking all cases of hepatitis, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, strep throat and tuberculosis put together. In 1970 there were at least
...cases of syphilis among the 27 million U.S. teen-agers and 150,000 cases of gonorrhea, more than in any European country except Sweden and Denmark. From 1960 to 1970 the number of reported VD cases among girls 15 to 19 increased 144%, and that percentage does not begin to tell the story, because it is estimated that three out of four cases go unreported...
...doctor-patient relationship, which covers only medical matters, excuse doctors from the demands of the law. In many states, for instance, doctors are required to report gunshot wounds, and in some they must also alert authorities to suspected cases of child abuse. Certain communicable diseases, including syphilis and gonorrhea, must be reported to public health authorities...
...Gonorrhea now rates as America's most urgent public health problem, and officials have urged routine screening to detect the hundreds of thousands of new cases each year. But detection is often difficult, especially in women. Gonococci, the germs of gonorrhea, flourish and multiply astronomically in human genitalia, but are difficult to preserve for laboratory test cultures. The organisms are sensitive to air and often die by the time a specimen reaches a lab technician. Now Smith Kline and French Laboratories have devised a simple, self-contained test that physicians can perform in their own offices. The doctor takes...