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2 unusual facts about Syphilis


Ignace Deen Hospital

A study at the hospital showed high rates of sexually transmitted diseases among pregnant women including Candidosis (28.76%), Vaginal Trichomoniasis (13.88%), Chlamydia trachomatis (3.37%), HIV (2.38%), Syphilis (0.99%) and Gonococcus (0.40%).

United States Waiver of Inadmissibility

This currently includes Class A Tuberculosis, Chancroid, Gonorrhea, Granuloma inguinale, Lymphogranuloma venereum, Syphilis, Leprosy or any other communicable disease as determined by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.


Abd al-Qadir ibn Shaqrun

He is also the author of a risala titled al-Nafha al-wardiyya fi l'-ushba al-kindiyya on sarsaparilla and the treatment of syphilis.

Anal fissure

Examples of sexually transmitted infections that may affect the anorectal area are syphilis, herpes, chlamydia and human papilloma virus.

Eugène Brieux

Les Avariés (1901), Damaged Lives in English, was banned by the censor, due to its medical details of syphilis, was read privately by the author at the Théâtre Antoine; and Petite amie (1902) describes the life of a Parisian shop-girl.

Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua

Having suffered long from syphilis, which he had inherited from his father, he died in 1540 at his villa at Marmirolo.

Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt

At the University of Chicago, DeWitt and her team worked on developing a drug to treat tuberculosis based on the work of Paul Erlich, who developed a treatment for syphilis by chemically modifying a dye that would stain parasites.

Manhattan Psychiatric Center

Wilhelm Steinitz, the first undisputed world chess champion, was hospitalized with mental illness possibly caused by syphilis, and died there on August 12, 1900.

National Blood Service

People who have ever had syphilis, HTLV (Human T-lymphotropic virus), HIV or Hepatitis C, worked as a prostitute, or have ever injected themselves with drugs.

Philippe Gaucher

In 1902 he succeeded Jean Alfred Fournier (1832–1914) as the university chair of dermatology and syphilography.

Pupilometer

In ophthalmology, a pupillary response to light is differentiated from a pupillary response to focus (i.e. pupils may constrict on near focus, as with the Argyll Robertson pupil) in the diagnosis of tertiary syphilis.

Tuskegee Experiments

Its title refers to the Tuskegee syphilis experiment — the notorious medical experiment conducted around Tuskegee, Alabama, lasting from 1932 to 1972, in which 400 subjects, mainly poor, black sharecroppers, were used in an investigation of the effects of syphilis without their knowledge or consent.

Venereal Disease Research Laboratory test

The Venereal Disease Research Laboratory test or VDRL is a blood test for syphilis and was developed by the former Venereal Disease Research Laboratory, now the Treponemal Pathogenesis and Immunology Branch, of the United States Public Health Service.

Yvo Gaukes

Gaukes also popularized Species Lignorum, a variant of the numerous Guaiacum wood extracts that had been used to treat syphilis since the late 16th century.


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