Sentences with phrase «syphilis when»

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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.

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

This becomes especially evident when we consider some of our everyday acronyms: at one time cancer was the «Big C»; children have «to do a BM»; while «syphilis» may be difficult to utter, «VD» is less of a problem; the «SOB» may hand out a lot of «BS»; «HO» is to be dreaded; and of course we have our «F --» word.

Is there a connection here between syphilis and Lyme disease, which is also caused by a spirochete and which is also said to be difficult to treat when diagnosed late?

We have seen increases in the last seven years, but even the number of cases of primary and secondary syphilis that we see today — approximately 11,000 reported cases, which is an increase from [the year] 2000 — is still many times better than what we saw in 1990 when cases were over 50,000.

In the 1940s, when it seemed that penicillin was successfully rooting out syphilis in the United States, Cutler worried that simply relying on the pill after the disease had been diagnosed wasn't enough.

«When you use these medications, it is not like taking penicillin for syphilis.

Fissures can also develop when a person has syphilis, tuberculosis, a weak immune system, anal cancer, and inflammatory bowel conditions, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

The men were never given adequate treatment for their diseases, even when penicillin became the drug of choice for syphilis in 1947.

It's exquisite and heartbreaking music, and more so when you realize that Schubert wrote it while suffering from the syphilis that would kill him.

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Written records of syphilis date back to 1495 when it seemed to appear in Europe for the first time.

What: Free HIV and syphilis testing When: June 26, 2012, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Where: Planned Parenthood health center at 2430 Poplar Avenue

When it comes to STDs, «prevention» is usually synonymous with «condoms» — and, while condoms provide excellent protection against most STDs, they are more limited in preventing the transmission of STDs like syphilis, which are spread by skin - to - skin contact.

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.

For example, bacterial STDs like chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis can do a lot of damage when left unchecked, but if caught in their early stages can be blasted away with antibiotics, leaving you good as new.