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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 Auburn men's basketball team is going to be a little late getting into Houston. The Tigers' flight west had to be turned around due to mid-trip "horseplay" between a group of players that ...
Apple's iPhone sales in China slipped 0.3% while rival Huawei posted a 42% surge in the third quarter of 2024, as competition intensifies in the world's largest smartphone market. Apple reached ...
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 ...
Republican lawmakers on Tuesday grilled FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell on her agency's handling of hurricane recovery efforts, including about allegations of political bias. The two House ...
Treponema pallidum, formerly known as Spirochaeta pallida, is a microaerophilic, gram-negative, spirochaete bacterium with subspecies that cause the diseases syphilis, bejel (also known as endemic syphilis), and yaws. [1] It is known to be transmitted only among humans and baboons. [2]
Del Rio, 61, was arrested at approximately 12:35 a.m. on Friday after driving his vehicle into a street sign, also breaking a fence and stopping in a yard, according to Madison Police.