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Article: Other sex diseases dwarf AIDS
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 21, 1989
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A silent epidemic is raging throughout the United States,
virtually unnoticed by many Americans, almost ignored by their
government and overshadowed by the specter of AIDS.
It is an epidemic of what public health authorities call "the
other sexually transmitted diseases," which collectively cost far
more in life and suffering than the dreaded acquired immune
deficiency syndrome.
Last week in New York, a panel of experts, alarmed at public
and official complacency, called a news briefing to discuss the
dimensions of a problem that dwarfs the AIDS crisis and seems to have
no ready solution, short range or long.
Out of this daylong briefing emerged the following picture:
Since the ...