venereal disease
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While syphilis as a venereal disease presents a global health risk, bejel, which is spread by skin contact, only occurs today in very arid regions of Africa and Asia.
From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2024
Three years earlier, while pursuing graduate work in history, Buxtun had taken a job at the local Public Health Service office in 1965; he was tasked with tracking venereal disease cases in the Bay Area.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2022
They are responsible for venereal disease, bacterial meningitis as well as cholera, bubonic plague and other diseases.
From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021
During World War I, the federal government launched a national campaign against an epidemic of venereal disease in military camps.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2018
We have as much distaste for talking about personal death as for thinking about it; it is an indelicacy, like talking in mixed company about venereal disease or abortion in the old days.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
