Word: gonorrhea
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Doctors have been disappointed more than once in their high hopes of eradicating gonorrhea with wonder drugs, but last week the U.S. Public Health Service reported that before the end of 1963 the anti-gonorrhea campaign may be made vastly more effective. This time it is not a new drug that is arousing new hope, but an improved and speedier way of detecting the disease...
...bacteria, hulking big microbes (by comparison with viruses) that generally attack by producing systemic poisons rather than by invading the body's cells. Antibiotics have wiped out or brought under control virtually all the major bacterial diseases: tuberculosis, some forms of pneumonia, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, gonorrhea, syphilis and most of the other illnesses that stir memories of Paul de Kruif's heroic Microbe Hunters...
...Increases were reported in gonorrhea (up 16.1%), syphilis (up 79.2%), arrests of children under 16 (up 6.7% to 12,132), major crimes (up 5.9% to 130,162), all crimes (up 4.5% to 410,828), new admissions to jails and reformatories...
...among teenagers, is spreading menacingly in the U.S. In the last five years, the rate of reported cases of infectious syphilis among the 15-19 age group has more than doubled, from 10 in each 100,000 of population in 1956 to 22 last year. The rate of reported gonorrhea among teen-agers has risen from 408 for each 100,000 of population to 428. The total rate of infectious venereal disease among youngsters is almost three times the rate for all age groups...
What is more, said the American Social Health Association last week, only one case of venereal disease out of five is reported to health authorities. Thus it is estimated that the total syphilis-infected population could be as high as 2,000,000, while another 1,000,000 contracted gonorrhea last year...