Word: gonorrhea
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...women has had sex with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of HIV-positive men. There is nothing unusual about the way they go about their business; they don't use condoms more frequently than other prostitutes do, for example. Significantly, they have suffered from other sexually transmitted diseases, including syphilis and gonorrhea...
...Teenage girls have the nation's highest rate of infection by gonorrhea. Examining gures from 1991, the cdc found that for every 100,000 girls ages 15 to 19, there were 1,043 reported cases -- a rate of infection 22 times as high as that for women 30 and older. In second place? Teenage boys -- 882 cases per 100,000, about six times the rate among men over 30. If not detected early, gonorrhea can lead to infertility as well as heart and joint problems. It can also increase the chances of hiv infection...
...clients' wives may not be so lucky. Turkey's Black Sea region has seen its divorce rate jump 20% in the past three years, along with an explosion of gonorrhea and syphilis -- all the result of the invasion of thousands of "Natashas," female traders from Moldova and Belarus in the former Soviet Union. . "Natasha yat asagi!" (pronounced Natasha yatashi) is the new mating call: Turkish for "Natasha, jump into bed!" The women swarm in with suitcases of cheap goods to hawk by day. By night they sell their services. The town of Hopa, which three years ago had no hotels...
Frazier is fiercely individualistic, without political or religious affiliations. Brown demonstrates the same resistance to taking sides on certain issues. During her reading at the Brattle, she declared that "the difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the difference between gonorrhea and syphilis." Later, when someone asked for her opinion on the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill affair, she blamed them both for being naive enough to play into the hands of the media: "It was so duplicitous, the way they pitted a Black man against a Black woman and sat back and licked their chops...
Under current regulations, there is a list of communicable diseases -- including AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea, leprosy and tuberculosis -- that are grounds for barring entry into the U.S. The Clinton proposal is to remove all of them except active tuberculosis, which unlike the others can spread through the air. The National Commission on AIDS estimates that as a result between 300 and 600 people with AIDS or infected with HIV might immigrate into the country every year...