Word: gonorrhea
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...rates for the U.S. as a whole have been dropping steadily. But last week three national health organizations reported that in 25 states and 14 major cities syphilis and gonorrhea have increased sharply in 1955. Fifteen states had VD epidemics. Teen-agers now average 200,000 cases a year. Reasons: easy treatment with "wonder drugs" has made people complacent, and Public Health Service anti-VD doctors are now down from...
Because of ignorance, poverty, poor sanitation, and moral apathy, Negro disease rate is many times that of the whites. During the last five years here in Clay Country, which is equally divided between the races, there have been 499 gonorrhea cases reported among Negroes to five among whites, 85 Negro case of syphilis and one white. The TB rate is equally high. One cannot blame the Negro for this situation, but on the other hand, neither can one fail to se why white parents are apprehensive about opening the schools to Negroes on any large or immediate basis...
...another, the Public Health Service hoped to reach 96^ million people. Among them would be a high proportion of the unreported syphilis victims in the U.S., estimated at 2,000,000. The object was to persuade them to step forward and accept penicillin treatment (one day for gonorrhea, eight for syphilis). P.H.S. knows that the fight against syphilis is being slowly won: against some 220,-ooo new cases each year, 373,296 cases were reported and treated in 1947, and 338,141 last year...
Some penicillin treatments now in use for syphilis and gonorrhea: require as many as 100 consecutive injections over a period of eight days, use from 2,000,000 to 9,000,000 units of the drug. Secret of the speedup and increased effectiveness of the new penicillin treatment, still in the experimental stage: the drug is dissolved in oil with 2% aluminum monostearate. The process coats the penicillin particles, which are ordinarily absorbed in the bloodstream within two to four hours, and keeps them at work for 72 hours...
...Gonorrhea is apparently knocked out in six hours...