Sentences with phrase «about syphilis»

But his delusions during his Cotard's episode, which happened decades later, were not about syphilis but HIV / AIDS — which had supplanted syphilis in the broader culture as «God's punishment for sins of the flesh» (syphilis almost never shows up anymore during hypochondriac delusions in Cotard's).

«Since the syphilis bacterium can not be cultured in the lab, our results show that data derived from studying the Lyme disease bacterium is highly informative about the syphilis bacterium and can be used as a «surrogate» for it,» says Dr. Wolgemuth.

When I was a boy we all knew about syphilis and gonorrhea, but because of penicillin they were supposed to be on the way out.

Not exact matches

Though the Canadian Business of the 1930s covered many topics that wouldn't seem out of place in the 21st century — rising taxes, truth in advertising, the imminent death of the airline industry — it also ran many stories the editors of 2013 likely would never touch («The story of safety glass») or would at least think twice about («The «social» diseases and business: what is syphilis costing Canada?»).

was not the law put into place before HIV / AIDS, syphilis discovered about 1905/08, but the first laws were 1875 or so?

As to your ending comment about gay men and syphilis, we must take many things into account when looking at a statistic like that.

if i read the article correctly it about how some moral beliefs ruin s * x. and if i remember history correctly hitler had incurable syphilis, a disease that by some accounts is God's revenge for promiscuity.

No one worries about dying from tertiary syphilis, diphtheria or rheumatic heart disease.

According to the La Leche League that a mom should be healthy, well - nourished, taking no medication, ideally she would have an infant about the same age as the one she's going to be cross-nursing, she should be screened for tuberculosis, syphilis, hepatitis, herpes, HIV and other infectious agents, she should not smoke, drink alcohol, consume large amounts of caffeinated beverages or artificially sweetened beverages, and her own infant should already be very healthy, gaining weight on a regular basis and free of all infections.

The Second World War changed all this; the imminent collapse of civilization tended to break down social barriers, and sex education became more about avoiding syphilis, gonorrhoea and the like.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

Is the perception, that relative to HIV / AIDS syphilis isn't something to worry about, a big hurdle for public health officials?

(About 2 % of men in both groups contracted syphilis.)

The runners - up prize goes to Hugh Grant, wrongly leaked as the winner of best actor (comedy or musical), who describes the plot of Florence Foster Jenkins as, accurately enough, about «a woman slowly dying of syphilis».

Health professionals studying the progression of untreated syphilis in rural African - American men preyed on these men, most of whom were poor, by misleading them about the purpose of the experiments.

A Pictorial Tour of The Boleyn Inheritance: By the time The Boleyn Inheritance opens Henry VIII is about 50 years old, in poor health, probably suffering from gout, possibly syphilis, and has an open festering wound in his leg that won't heal (he hadn't always been old, fat and smelly - in his youth he'd been considered quite dashing and a lot slimmer, as can be seen by the armor he wore in his early twenties).

Composed while the 31 - year - old Franz Schubert was dying of syphilis and not in a very good mood, the 24 - song cycle Winterreise sets to music a poem by Wilhelm Müller about a young man who, spurned by his lover, goes off in search of a lonely death.

If I was a representative of the CDC, took 40,000 blood samples, split them into 7 aliquots, then mailed them to seven different labs and they all reported that 0.56 % were positive for syphilis, but all reported completely regional distributions of STD infection, it wouldn't be something to worry about?

If I decide to say that the reason that Spencer is so often wrong is that «Roy W. Spencer is insane due to an advanced, untreated case of syphilis» then that would likely be libel per se, but I am not actually claiming that his many errors have occurred because «Roy W. Spencer is insane due to syphilis,» I'm just noting that as a hypothetical example that would be libel per se if I did say it, to show how inaccurately that legal jargon is being bandied about here.

Rates of infidelity in «monogamous» relationships are also alarmingly high, hovering between 20 - 55 %, depending on what time frame you ask people about (e.g., having ever cheated versus cheated in the last 5 years).3 Sadly, when cheaters cheat, they typically do not take protective measures to reduce sexually transmitted infections 100 % of the time.1 Then, when they have sex with their primary partner, they rarely use barrier protection (e.g., condoms); this puts all partners at risk for diseases such as syphilis and HIV.