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STD Awareness: Antibiotic-Resistant Syphilis
Treponema pallidum under a microscope. Image: Dr. Edwin P. Ewing, Jr., CDC The image to your right, with lively yellow splotches against a pale green background, is not a long-lost Jackson Pollack...
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STD Awareness: Do Sexually Transmitted Diseases Increase HIV Risk?
You might have heard that having an STD like syphilis, herpes, or gonorrhea can make it easier to catch HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. But have you ever wondered if this was true? Maybe it’s just a...
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STD Awareness: Can You Get an STD in Your Eye?
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) usually haunt the nether regions, whether germs have set up shop in the urethra, clustered around the cervix, or burrowed inside a cell. There, they might cause...
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STD Awareness: Three Sexually Transmitted Bacteria That Will Shock and Amaze You
It’s hard to appreciate a pubic louse as an intriguing creature in its own right. Not when an infestation with pubic lice is such a vexing experience. The same can be said for the germs that cause any...
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STD Awareness: The History of Syphilis
Have you ever heard that syphilis originated in the New World, and was imported to Europe by unwitting explorers? Some say it’s a fitting revenge for Europeans, who brought deadly diseases like...
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STD Awareness: Will STDs Go Away on Their Own?
Can gonorrhea go away without treatment? Does chlamydia eventually clear up? Can trichomoniasis go away on its own? These are the kinds of questions people pose to Google before Google sends them here...
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STD Awareness: What Does “Congenital Syphilis” Mean?
Treponema pallidum, the bacteria that causes syphilis Congenital syphilis, for centuries a leading cause of infant mortality, is often thought of as an antique affliction, relegated to history books —...
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STD Awareness: Is There a Vaccine for Syphilis?
Before antibiotics, syphilis was the most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) out there. It was easy to get, quack cures were ineffective and often unpleasant, and it could lead to blindness,...
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