Word: treponema
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress last week agreed to inject the U. S. with $3,000,000 this year, $5,000,000 next year and $7,000,000 in 1940 to exterminate the germs which cause syphilis (Treponema pallidum), gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae), and the third but least harmful of the major venereal diseases, chancroid (Hemophilus ducreyi). The money is to be allotted to State and city health officials to buy medicines, to pay doctors and clinics for treatment of venereal victims...
Dourine is a genital disease peculiar only to horses. It swells their groins and eventually paralyzes their hind quarters. The cause of the disease is a trypanosome, brother of the trypanosome which causes human sleeping sickness and distant relative of Treponema pallidum which causes syphilis. Dourine is highly contagious and spreads rapidly among unstalled horses. Arizona fears the spread of the disease among her domesticated herds...
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