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Article: Syphilis and gonorrhea; old-fashioned VD still flourishing.
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- April 1, 1986
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Syphilis and Gonorrhea: Old-Fashioned VD Still Flourishing After penicillin was discovered in 1943, it was soon found to be effective against the age-old veneral diseases, syphilis and gonorrhea. Doctors were hopeful that in time both diseases would be as unknown to future generations as smallpox is to ours.
It hasn't happened yet. Though the last few years have seen a drop in the number of cases, syphilis and gonorrhea have not disappeared; they are, in fact, still flourishing.
In 1984, gonorrhea had the dubious distinction of being No. 1 among diseases reported to the U.S. Public Health Service's Centers for Disease Control, with 878,000 cases among ...