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De Lairesse, himself a painter and art theorist, suffered from congenital syphilis that severely deformed his face and eventually blinded him. [1] This is a list of famous historical figures diagnosed with or strongly suspected as having had syphilis at some time. Many people who acquired syphilis were treated and recovered; some died from it.
John Charles Cutler (June 29, 1915 – February 8, 2003) was an American surgeon. He was the acting chief of the venereal disease program in the United States Public Health Service. [1] [2] He is known for leading several controversial and unethical human experiments of syphilis, done under the auspices
By 1956, congenital syphilis had been almost eliminated, and female cases of acquired syphilis had been reduced to a hundredth of their level just 10 years previously. [ 87 ] In 1978 in England and Wales, homosexual men accounted for 58% of syphilis cases in (and 76% of cases in London), but by 1994–1996 this figure was 25%, possibly driven ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the ...
For four decades, the United States government enrolled hundreds of Black men in Alabama in a study on syphilis, just so they could document the disease's ravages on the human body.
Whistleblowing on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Peter Buxtun (sometimes referred to as Peter Buxton ; September 29, 1937 – May 18, 2024) was an American epidemiologist. [ 1 ] He was an employee of the United States Public Health Service who became known as the whistleblower responsible for ending the Tuskegee Syphilis Study .
CDC says that more than 3,700 cases of congenital syphilis were ... The CDC says that in 2022 the disease caused 231 stillbirths and 51 infant deaths. ... American Indian or Alaska Native mothers ...
Deaths from syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. Pages in category "Deaths from syphilis" The following 71 pages are in this category, out of 71 total.