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Oscar Wilde died as the result of a severe ear infection and not from syphilis, doctors believe.
The disease is caused by bacteria related to syphilis that enter the body through a tick bite.
Syphilis incidence reached an all-time low in 1957 and syphilis deaths fell rapidly during the 1940s and early 1950s.
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To this end, it recently announced plans to eliminate syphilis from America altogether.
In her 14 years of practicing, she has been diagnosing more and more cases of chlamydia, syphilis and gonorrhea, she said.
By analogy the discovery that penicillin beats syphilis seems to have led to a very large change in sexual practices.
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If such a programme could be introduced more widely, America's efforts to eliminate syphilis might yet be a triumph of public health.
In addition, diagnoses of other sexually transmitted infections, notably gonorrhoea and syphilis, are rising - suggesting more people are having unsafe sex.
Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland, has warmly welcomed the new publicity for the long-held belief that syphilis was not the cause of his death.
How childless Milton Hershey came to make MHS sole beneficiary of his fortune is a story that owes as much to syphilis as to cocoa.
Together, the findings supported the notion that the discovery of penicillin decreased the cost of syphilis and thereby played an important role in shaping modern sexuality.
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In a review of the writer's medical history, coinciding with the centenary of his death, doctors from Cape Town say that a diagnosis of syphilis was "most unlikely".
The next year, penicillin became an effective treatment for syphilis.
In that year 23, 000 British soldiers were hospitalised for treatment and the French government reported over a million cases of syphilis or gonorrhoea since the start of the war.
CDC, hopes that because syphilis is so closely associated with poor public health services, a campaign to eliminate it could be used as a way of improving public health more generally.
But more important, there is now a precious opportunity to harness the momentum to eliminate syphilis to achieve something far more significant: a complete revamp of public-health services in poor areas.
My sister said I was the crazy one, rattling around the three-story dilapidated mansion our great-grandfather built before he died of syphilis, wondering how I was going to pay the light bill.
Research by the South African doctors indicates that Wildewas examined by at least seven doctors, including two psychiatrists while he was in Reading Jail between 1895 and 1897 and none had diagnosed syphilis.
Two weeks ago a host of UK-based news publications spread the laughable argument that since Facebook use and syphilis infection rates are correlated, it somehow implies causation, too.
But another doctor, Duan Qing, explained at the briefing that would be impossible for there to be any such cases of AIDS, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, or syphilis because there is a lengthy incubation period.
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Clinton cited as an example his May 16 formal apology on behalf of the government to a group of blacks whose syphilis went untreated for decades as part of a U.S. Public Health Service study.
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Although the technical means to achieve this are now in place, and the low incidence of the disease makes the circumstances more favourable than ever before, eliminating syphilis may be harder than it at first appears.
"Around 25% of Victorian men had syphilis and he may have had it too - we'll never know - but one thing that's almost certain is that he didn't die of it, " Mr Holland told BBC News Online.
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.
Clinton also included in his address Sunday a renewed pledge to carry out research at the highest standard of ethics to ensure there is never a repetition of a government study in Tuskegee, Alabama, on poor black men whose syphilis went untreated for years.
Like the lab-on-a-chip that allows people in remote parts of the world to test for HIV and syphilis, OraQuick can save lives by giving people hesitant to go to the clinic a test they can perform relatively easily and in the privacy of their own homes.
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