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She had syphilis, which explains in part why she and child-loving Milton never had offspring.
Instead, their syphilis went untreated for decades so medical researchers could study how the disease progressed.
Rockefeller supported syphilis experiments in Alabama which did not have the consent of the subjects.
This makes for a tricky social and political battleground on which to fight syphilis.
The app screens for STDs that result in physical symptoms such as syphilis, herpes and genital warts.
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.
Her mother, a secret writer herself, died slowly from syphilis caught from rape in the old country.
Sexually active gay and bisexual men should be tested at least annually for HIV, syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea.
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.
Today, black Americans are 40 times more likely to contract syphilis than whites.
The earl died aged 33 from syphilis after making a name for himself as a poet, a womaniser and pornographer.
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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.
STDs in America including syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia than in other western countries.
Suffering from syphilis, this woman is laid out in bed, her brow a terrifying knot of black oil and her exaggeratedly large white skirt a mockery.
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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More than 100 of the subjects died of the disease or related complications, together with at least 40 unwitting wives, and 19 children contracted syphilis at birth.
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".
Regression analysis demonstrated that most measures of sexual behavior significantly increased immediately following the collapse of syphilis and most measures were significantly associated with the syphilis death rate.
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The next year, penicillin became an effective treatment for syphilis.
"Some of what we consider the bad stuff actually was used to cure certain diseases back then - syphilis was cured by arsenic and mercury, " he told BBC News.
Moreover, poor blacks harbour a strong mistrust of government doctors, mistrust that is partly a consequence of the notorious Tuskegee syphilis study that ran between the 1930s and 1972.
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.
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