Word: pox
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...Eunuch, is rarely without something shocking to say. Still, British readers who picked up her regular column in London's Sunday Times were bemused. IT'S TIME VD WAS SOCIALLY ACCEPTED, the headline announced, and the story went on to argue, with slightly Shavian logic, that the pox is now so prevalent that no one who has it should be obliged to feel guilty. "I wish at this point I could announce publicly I had had a venereal disease," Ms. Greer concluded. "Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal...
...merely suppress the symptoms of viral disease, isoprinosine attacks the viruses themselves, preventing them from reproducing and thus reducing the scope of infection. So far, says Gordon, it has proved effective in tissue culture against the viruses that cause influenza and the herpes viruses responsible for shingles and chicken pox. But it still falls short of cure for man's most common ailment, for, as Gordon points out, "there is no such thing as the common cold." More than 20 different viruses are known to produce the upper-respiratory-tract infections that lead to fever and sniffles. Isoprinosine, though...
This Tale of the South Pacific has added enormously to the market value of Gauguin's paintings, but it is false in almost every detail. Gauguin's contact with the Noble Savage served mainly to give him the pox. He spoke barely a word of the Tahitians' language, understood nothing of their rituals and social structures, never ate yams or fish when he could afford tinned asparagus and claret, and was prone to copy his scenes of native life from tourist photographs purchased in the grubby colonial port of Papeete. The most advertised side of the legend...
...even greater problem is health. Degeneration and disease among hotel children is beyond imagination. There is, today, a near crisis involving upper respiratory infections, and chicken pox is spreading rapidly. There has been a large number of middle-ear infections, as well as gastrointestinal infections. Lead poisoning, caused by hotel children eating the peeling paint from the walls, is also a severe hazard...
...first documented outbreak of syphilis, or "the great pox," followed the siege of Naples by the French in 1494, giving rise to the now discounted legend that Columbus' men had brought the disease back from the New World...