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| | Syphilis at opensource encyclopedia |
 | | Syphilis (previously called lues) is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) that is caused by a spirochaete bacterium, Treponema pallidum. | | | As the disease became better understood, effective treatments began to be found, beginning with the use of the arsenic-containing drug Salvarsan from 1910. | | | For example Lucio says "[...] thy bones are hollow"; this is a reference to the brittleness of bones engendered by the use of mercury which was then widely used to treat syphilis. |
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http://www.wiki.tatet.com/Syphilis.html
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| | Syphilis - MSN Encarta |
| | Syphilis is detected by symptoms and verified by one of several tests performed on the blood or spinal fluid, the most common of which is the VDRL (venereal disease research laboratory) test. | | | In 1943 the antibiotic penicillin was shown to be highly effective against syphilis, and it is still the preferred treatment for the disease. | | | Authorities believe that syphilis was introduced into Europe in 1493 by crew members returning from Christopher Columbus's first expedition to America; by the 16th century, syphilis had become the major public disease. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761554941/Syphilis.html
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| | Syphilis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Syphilis (historically called lues) is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) that is caused by a spirochaete bacterium, Treponema pallidum. | | | Congenital syphilis is syphilis present in utero and at birth, and occurs when a child is born to a mother with secondary or tertiary syphilis. | | | The pre-Colombian theory holds that syphilis symptoms are described by Hippocrates in Classical Greece in its venereal/tertiary form. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis
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| | The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment |
| | The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. | | | Since the men had in fact received some medication for syphilis in the beginning of the study, however inadequate, it thereby corrupted the outcome of a study of “untreated syphilis.” | | | their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762136.html
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| | Syphilis Tests - Trustworthy, Physician-Reviewed Information from WebMD |
| | Screening for syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) often is done for people who engage in high-risk sexual behavior. | | | Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) that is usually spread during sexual contact, including kissing or oral sex. | | | A syphilis test may be done on a sample of blood, sore, skin, or spinal fluid, depending on which type of test is done. |
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http://content.health.msn.com/hw/healthy_sexuality/hw5839.asp
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| | syphilis on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Penicillin is the antibiotic of choice for all stages of syphilis treatment, but penicillin-resistant organisms have complicated treatment of the disease. | | | SYPHILIS [syphilis], contagious sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum (described by Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffmann in 1905). | | | Visage en cire représentant un homme atteint de syphilis au musée Orfila-Rouvière Une campagne de dépistage de la syphilis. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/syphilis_symptoms.asp
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| | Syphilis |
| | That's why it's important to talk to your doctor if you think that you may have syphilis or if you have engaged in any behavior that would put you at risk for developing the disease. | | | Even if you are not pregnant, if you suspect that you may have had contact with someone with syphilis or contracted the illness yourself, it's important to call your doctor or health care facility right away. | | | It's important to call your child's doctor if your child has had sexual contact with someone who has syphilis, if your child has any type of sore around the genital area, or if your child has any other symptom of the illness. |
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http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/infections/std/syphilis.html
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| | StudyGuide |
| | Argue whether syphilis and yaws are the same disease; cite evidence to support your position. | | | Discuss the ethics of the Tuskgee syphilis ("bad blood") study done in the rural South in the 1930s-1970s. | | | Why are these diseases increasing in incidence around the world? |
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http://microvet.arizona.edu:16080/Courses/MIC438/decker/StudyGuide.html
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| | Eliminating congenital syphilis |
| | At any stage of the disease, if a woman with syphilis becomes pregnant, Treponema pallidum may be transmitted to her unborn child, via the placenta, causing miscarriage, stillbirth, or congenital syphilis in the child at birth. | | | Congenital syphilis can be prevented by testing women for syphilis early in pregnancy, treating those who are seropositive, and preventing reinfection. | | | Congenital syphilis represents a significant financial and emotional burden to individuals and communities in many developing countries. |
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http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/rtis/syphilis.html
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| | Syphilis as a medical problem |
| | Syphilis was therefore something which in its own right as a disease entity with horrible implications for both the sufferer and his or her offspring was greatly to be feared. | | | Gummatous infiltration of the bones of the nose was responsible for one of the most horrible deformities caused by syphilis as the nose itself eroded and sometimes collapsed and ulceration spread to the face. | | | The primary chancre of syphilis is not usually painful, unless it becomes ulcerated through pressure. |
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http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah/grtscrge.htm
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| | Talk:Gay disease |
| | You might argue that there are indeed diseases that don´t spread much outside the gay community (and that this may, or may not, have been so with syphilis and the spanish/italian/whatever people), but that´s not the point. | | | But GRID was not a single disease -- when epidemiologists used the term GRID they really weren't sure what it was -- changing the name to AIDS was not semantics, it reflected a real shift in the understanding of the disorder. | | | I am not accusing Western medicine of homophobia, but the fact that AIDS was once refered to as GRID was an example of the way diseases are socially constructed and often under political conditions. |
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http://www.termsdefined.net/ta/talk:gay-disease.html
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| | Infant syphilis cases drop in U.S.: CDC - Children's Health - MSNBC.com |
| | It said its report highlighted a need to enhance syphilis screening and awareness in high-risk communities and improve doctors’ focus on the disease. | | | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which launched a national syphilis-elimination program in 1998, said there were 451 congenital syphilis reported cases in 2002 compared to 498 in the previous year and 578 in 2000. | | | The Atlanta-based agency noted that most of the infants born with the infection in 2002 had mothers who either were never treated or inadequately treated for the disease before or during their pregnancies. |
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5686354
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| | SYPHILIS |
| | In early syphilis (primary, secondary, early latent), the disease is infectious and it is important to seek the recent sexual contact. | | | In late syphilis (late latent, tertiary), infectivity lapses rapidly with time and it is more important to examine spouse and family members. | | | Congenital syphilis is transmitted in utero after the first 16 weeks of pregnancy, therefore it is usually not a cause of abortion during the first trimester. |
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http://www.hkmj.org.hk/skin/syphilis.htm
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| | CNN - Sour legacy of Tuskegee syphilis study lingers - May 16, 1997 |
| | The service was conducting a study on the effects of syphilis on the human body and, at the time, the sexually transmitted disease was rampant in Macon County, Alabama. | | | By the time the study was exposed in 1972, 28 men had died of syphilis, 100 others were dead of related complications, at least 40 wives had been infected and 19 children had contracted the disease at birth. | | | CNN - Sour legacy of Tuskegee syphilis study lingers - May 16, 1997 |
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http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9705/16/nfm.tuskegee
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| | Demyelinating Optic Neuropathy |
| | Diseases such as syphilis, toxoplasmosis, histoplasmosis, tuberculosis, hepatitis, rubella, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Lyme borreliosis, familial Mediterranean fever, Epstein-Barr virus, herpes zoster ophthalmicus, paranasal sinus disorder, sarcoidosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Bechet’s disease, and diabetes may cause optic neuropathy and should be considered before prematurely diagnosing demyelinating optic neuropathy. | | | Multiple sclerosis is an acquired, multifactorial, inflammatory demyelinating disease, which affects the white matter located in the central nervous system. | | | Demyelinating optic neuropathy can damage the fibers in both the visual and pupillary pathways. |
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http://www.revoptom.com/handbook/SECT51a.HTM
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| | Ananda's_thesis.html |
| | In a manner familiar from the times of previous outbreaks of disease (including the plague, cholera, leprosy and syphilis), the arrival of HIV found society rising to a crescendo of hysteria. | | | No attempts were made to provide responsible education or to equip soldiers with means of disease prevention, although a painful post-exposure disinfectant treatment, dispensed by injection into the urethra and no doubt intended to act as a disincentive against further sexual (mis)conduct, was available. | | | It enforces the narrative of the criminal diseased bodies of the Other, thereby reproducing the stigma and loathing against the HIV body. |
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http://law.anu.edu.au/criminet/Ananda's_thesis.html
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| | Syphilis - OI: Syphilis and Neurosyphilis -- ÆGIS |
| | Syphilis is a chronic infectious disease caused by the spirochaete Treponema pallidum. | | | Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by a bacteria (Treponema pallidum). | | | Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by a type of bacteria called T. Syphilis infections are treatable and curable with antibiotics. |
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http://syphilis.easylookfor.com
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| | THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT |
| | The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis, which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. | | | The study was meant to discover how syphilis affected blacks as opposed to whites, the theory being that whites experienced more neurological complications from syphilis whereas blacks were more susceptible to cardiovascular damage. | | | By the time the story broke, over 100 of the infected men had died, others suffered from serious syphilis related conditions that may have contributed to their later deaths even though penicillin, an effective treatment against syphilis, was in widespread use by 1946. |
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http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/tus.html
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| | CRORA : RESUME DES PUBLICATIONS |
| | Diseases like syphilis which are communicable by contact or inoculation alone. | | | I have probably seen more of this disease than any member of the profession in this city, and what I haste to say is based much more on personal observation than on authority. | | | Zymotic diseases present varied forms, obey different laws ; but may, at least so far as their mode of propagation is concerned, be arranged in a sliding scale somewhat after the plan adopted below : 1st. |
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http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/banques/CRORA/res10/re5705.htm
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| | Online Ethics Center: Ethics in the Science Classroom -Case Study 3: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study |
| | A principal aim of this study was to determine the incidence of the disease in the local population, while training both white and African-American physicians and nurses in its treatment. | | | She was aware of the goals and requirements of the study, including the failure to fully inform the participants of their condition and to deny treatment for syphilis. | | | She was largely responsible for assuring the cooperation of the participants throughout the duration of the study. |
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http://onlineethics.org/edu/precol/classroom/cs3.html
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| | THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT |
| | The government doctors who participated in the study failed to obtain informed consent from the subjects in a study of disease with a known risk to human life. | | | By the end of the experiment, 28 of the men had died directly of syphilis, 100 were dead of related complications, 40 of their wives had been infected, and 19 of their children had been born with congenital syphilis. | | | Many critics of The Tuskegee Study draw comparisons to the similar degradation of human indignity in inhumane medical experiments on humans living under the Third Reich. |
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http://thetalkingdrum.com/tus.html
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| | The Tuskegee Syphilis Study |
| | The 40-year U.S. government study, which began in 1932, examined the effects of untreated syphilis on some 400 impoverished African-American males who were not advised they had the disease, nor that they were subjects in the study. | | | Rather than treating the men with penicillin, which by the mid-1940s had become a successful cure for syphilis, public health service officials deliberately excluded the men from treatment so as to monitor the progress of the disease. | | | The play examines the Tuskegee study through the character of Miss Evers, based on Eunice Rivers, an African-American public health nurse who helped conduct the study. |
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http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/bailey/65/tuskegee.html
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| | Syphilis, NIAID Fact Sheet |
| | Developing better ways to diagnose and treat syphilis is an important research goal of scientists supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). | | | Testing and treatment early in pregnancy are the best ways to prevent syphilis in infants and should be a routine part of prenatal care. | | | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in November 2002 that this was the first increase since 1990. |
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http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/stdsyph.htm
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| | Communicable Disease |
| | Diseases where transmission of infection is associated almost solely with sexual contact include the bacterial infections gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis. | | | Rarely, and for reasons still poorly understood, the bacterium is able to invade the body and cause systemic disease. | | | Infectious diseases (also known as communicable diseases) are caused by micro-organisms that are able to invade and reproduce in the human body, and then cause harmful effects. |
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http://www.lho.org.uk/HIL/Disease_Groups/CommunicableDisease.htm
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| | Tuskegee, Alabama Syphilis Experiment |
| | Doctors connected with the study did not even use the term "syphilis." The doctors told those who tested positive for the venereal disease that they had "bad blood." Penicillin was discovered and found to be a cure for syphilis in the 1940's. | | | The ugly, inexcusable, racist blot, know as the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male cannot be erase from American history. | | | For others, the horror of what the American government did to hundreds of poor black men with syphilis on the pretense of giving them medical care is reason never ever to trust the government or the medical establishment. |
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http://www.fa-ir.org/90.htm
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| | VENEREAL DISEASE ACT |
| | "venereal disease" means syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, granuloma inguinale, lymphogranuloma venereum and chlamydia. | | | (h) regarding the literature concerning venereal diseases which may be distributed to the public and the information concerning venereal diseases which may be disseminated to the public by any method; | | | 3 (1) A person infected with a venereal disease who becomes aware or suspects that he or she is infected with a venereal disease must place himself or herself immediately under the care and treatment of a medical practitioner. |
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| | Venereal Disease |
| | A 'traditional' sexually transmitted venereal disease is gonorrhea, others are syphilis, chancroid and lymphogranuloma inguinale. | | | With the exception of the venereal disease AIDS there are good chances of cure for all the sexually transmitted diseases mentioned - provided that medical treatment is started early enough. | | | A sexually transmitted venereal disease is an infectious disease which is passed on through any kind of sexual contact, whether vaginal, oral or anal. |
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http://www.by-choice-not-chance.com/venereal-disease.html
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