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Alarmed by the spread of the disease, Washington State's King County, which includes Seattle, last December allocated $120,000 for a community-wide chlamydia-screening program. Says the county health department's Dr. Hunter Handsfield, who heads the effort: "The problem nationwide is that chlamydia is an out-of-sight, out-of-mind phenomenon." Only when more public health officials recognize and face up to it, he says, will the silent epidemic be brought under control...
...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...
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