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• n  a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)

• A pow-wow on syphilis and gonorrhea attracted 2,500 social sanitarians to Manhattan last week.
• With large ads in 14 newspapers the Ladies' Home Journal last week called attention to an article on syphilis in its August issue entitled "We Can End This Sorrow" by Paul de.
• Last week Biochemist Paul Leland Kirk of the University of California and a graduate student, Clifton Bennett, announced a sure, swift, new syphilis test.

• syph
• pox
• lues venerea
• lues

News & Articles

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• Porn Star Mr. Marcus Talks Infecting Co-Stars with Syphilis
  *Pornstar Mr. Marcus (Jesse Spencer) recently opened up about his decision to “work” despite being afflicted with syphilis. He also passed the disease on to several co-stars, sources say. Last summer, the adult film industry was blindsided by a syphilis scare and shut down. Porn stars were later required to receive testing and treatment to [...]
  June 14, 2013 - EURweb
• Syphilis outbreak prompts warnings in W. Hawaii
  HILO — The discovery of five syphilis cases in the past five months in West Hawaii — more than the past five years on Hawaii Island combined — has the state Department of Health warning the public to take precautions in their sexual activities. The outbreak of the sexually transmitted disease was discovered mostly in men who have sex with other men in West Hawaii, but health officials are ...
  June 13, 2013 - West Hawaii Today
• State warns of possible syphilis outbreak on Big Island
  Hawaii health officials are warning the public about a possible outbreak of a sexually transmitted disease on the Big Island.      The state Department of Health is investigating five cases of syphilis reported over the past five months, primarily on the Big Island.      The health department said Wednesday that while most of the cases were reported in men who have sex with men in West Hawaii ...
  June 13, 2013 - KITV Honolulu

Quotes

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• Ivan Pavlov in Times of India
  Pavlov said the "revolution was made by a madman with syphilis of the brain".
• Ron Liepert in Calgary Herald
  You have to remember, 95 per cent of Albertans are not impacted by (syphilis). I'm not necessarily going to subscribe to a provincewide ad campaign that could be communicating more to senior citizens than it is to street workers,Liepert said...
• Brian Mason in Vancouver Sun
  I think they squelched the campaign because they found it embarrassing,Mason said. "People need to understand that the rates of syphilis we're seeing in Alberta are extremely high for an industrialized society in which we have a modern...