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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chlamydia: the Silent Epidemic | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

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