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Venereal disease does not attract many medical researchers. There never have been great numbers of syphilologists, and their numbers and efforts have been sharply reduced since the 1945 discovery that penicillin is a fast and almost certain cure for early syphilis. But last week, as the most prominent U.S. syphilologists...
Baylor University's Dr. John Knox is convinced that if as much money were put into syphilis research as went into research on polio - which did not kill or cripple as many people - a vaccine could be found in a few years. But the spirochete of human syphilis is...
To most of its victims, the cold sore that breaks out on the lips is an annoying, repetitive sign of a not too serious infection. But unlike its more benign viral cousins that cause the common cold, the herpes simplex virus that produces cold sores or fever blisters can in...
Last week the British Medical Jour nal finally noted some encouraging news for cold-sore sufferers; in Paris, a team of Pasteur Institute virologists, led by Dr. Pierre Lépine, has developed a vaccine that shows definite promise. They grew herpes simplex virus in cultures of kidney cells taken...
For most healthy people, the disease is usually marked by nothing more than a bad headache and moderate fever. But in some victims, especially the very old and the very young, it has devastating effects: headache, stiff neck, high fever and vomiting. Some patients have convulsions and lapse into coma...