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Man with syphilis in German East Africa, c. early 1900s. Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection, is a major danger to public health, particularly in developing countries, including those in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease, whose origin is contested amongst researchers, arrived in Africa no later than the 16th century. Since then, it has ...
Rates of congenital syphilis have decreased between the 1980 and 2000s due to better access to prenatal care. [16] A five-year study among 250 patients in each year among attendees in an STI clinic in West Bengal found significantly decreased(p<0.05) Syphilis prevalence from 10.8% (in 2004) to 3.6% (in 2008). [17]
The Wassermann test or Wassermann reaction (WR) [1] is an antibody test for syphilis, named after the bacteriologist August Paul von Wassermann, based on complement fixation. It was the first blood test for syphilis and the first in the nontreponemal test (NTT) category. Newer NTTs, such as the RPR and VDRL tests, have mostly replaced it.
Upon further inspection and after some Internet research, Andrew believes that it was carpenter ants that traumatized him and his wife in the middle of the night.
Just before 11 a.m., Indianapolis Metropolitan Police were called to East Gimber Street on the city's south side for a report of a stolen 2013 Hyundai Sonata with 4-month old and 5-month old ...
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male [1] (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a group of nearly 400 African American men with ...
between 2008 and 2012, better performance than 12% of all directors The William S. Thompson, Jr. Stock Index From April 2009 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when William S. Thompson, Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 22.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a 67.8 percent return ...
Former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce apologized Monday for smashing a person’s phone after an anti-gay slur was used to refer to his brother, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.