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The history of syphilis has been well studied, but the exact origin of the disease was the source of debate until archaeological and genetic evidence showed conclusively it originated in the Americas.
Syphilis (/ ˈ s ɪ f ə l ɪ s /) is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. [1] The signs and symptoms depend on the stage it presents: primary, secondary, latent or tertiary.
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang, also released as Kipperbang, is a British television film first shown on Channel 4 on its second night, 3 November 1982.. Written by Jack Rosenthal as part of the First Love series, it is a coming-of-age film set in a grammar school in the outer London suburbs of the late forties (1948).
Rodney Alcala was born in San Antonio, Texas, the third of four children born to a Mexican American couple, [10] Raul Alcala Buquor and Anna Maria Gutierrez. [11] In 1951, Alcala's father moved the family to Mexico, then abandoned them three years later.
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 syphilis.
Nature versus nurture: Scientists are gathering more evidence on which has more of an impact on human well-being amid the aging process. While both environmental exposures and genetics are known ...
A sexually transmitted infection (STI), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the older term venereal disease (VD), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex.
This photo taken on February 24, 1996, shows World Champion Russian figure skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who were on board a U.S. passenger jet that crashed near Washington D.C., on ...