Word: gonorrhea
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VENEREAL DISEASES. Of the reported 136,039 cases of syphilis in all stages, Southern California's migrant agricultural workers claimed 10,000. Syphilis was slightly higher; gonorrhea was down...
They began using the telephone number last summer for recorded answers to a deluge of queries about Salk vaccine inoculations. This month, alarmed at an upsurge in VD that is giving the U.S. 1,000,000 new cases of gonorrhea a year (20% among youngsters aged 15 to 19), they installed the VD recording, mentioned it in a single newspaper interview...
...blush. Is the traveler enticed by a sexy blonde in a continental nightspot? Fielding's warnings: 1) chances are she can't leave the premises before closing time, and 2) even if she can, "she might leave you a souvenir. There's a new strain of gonorrhea so hardy that it eats sulfa and penicillin for breakfast...
...increase in stealing, vandalism and obscenity. But something else disturbed the committee more: "One of the dangerous and deplorable developments in the District of Columbia schools is the sex attitude of the Negro . . . The fact that 13 little Negro girls-six years old and under-were treated for gonorrhea in 1955 is only a sample of the sex attitude . . . Illegitimate children born to 15-year-old girls increased 42% during the first year of integration. The Department of Health reported 854 cases of gonorrhea among schoolchildren in 1955-97.8% were Negroes...
Arthritis Due to Infections. Once a major cause of arthritis, infections by common bacteria (notably gonorrhea and tuberculosis) no longer give the rheumatologists much concern. The joint symptoms, like the underlying disease, can be treated swiftly and effectively with such drugs as the sulfas, antibiotics and isoniazid. Can now be cured in nearly every case...