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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 ...
South Dakota led the country in syphilis cases per 100,000 people in 2022. California had the highest number of cases overall, followed by Texas and Florida. Southern states made up nine of the ...
The CDC says that in 2022 the disease caused 231 stillbirths and 51 infant deaths. The federal agency says that 90 per cent of new cases could have been prevented with testing and treatment.
But syphilis isn’t just on the rise in Houston: Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published in April found that, while syphilis cases made up a fraction of sexually ...
William Augustus Hinton was born in Chicago to Augustus Hinton and Maria Clark, both former slaves. Hinton grew up in Kansas. After high school, he studied at the University of Kansas before transferring to Harvard University, where he earned a B.S. degree in 1905.
Eunice Verdell Rivers Laurie (1899–1986) was an African American nurse who worked in the state of Alabama.She is known for her work as one of the nurses of the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study in Macon County from 1932 to 1972 which was "arguably the most infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history."