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Example sentences for: syphilis

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' The `inguinal lesion of primary syphilis' is usually a chancre (1605).
Foreplayed: The White House announced that President Clinton will soon issue an apology from the U.S. government for the infamous Tuskegee experiment , in which hundreds of poor black men were deliberately left untreated for syphilis from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Whether he acquired syphilis as an adult has been suggested and debated, but the evidence seems to be against it.
In addressing the question of antenatal treatment of congenital diseases, he claimed that had we been able to treat congenital syphilis, we would have lost the genius of Beethoven.
For this, I turn to an article in the New York Times today about an outbreak of syphilis in San Francisco being linked to one chat room on AOL.