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According to a NYT front-pager, the San Francisco Department of Health has traced an outbreak of syphilis to an America Online chat room.
In his fine earlier book, Bad Blood , James Jones exposed one of American medicine's most shameful episodes: the Tuskegee experiment, in which doctors enlisted a group of black men with syphilis and, without their knowledge or consent, withheld treatment so as to observe the natural progress of the disease.
Whether he acquired syphilis as an adult has been suggested and debated, but the evidence seems to be against it.
There is a range of theories involving fatal encounters with Jews, among them 1) a Jewish doctor who incompetently caused the death of his mother during cancer treatment; 2) a Jewish music teacher who seduced his half-niece and somehow incited her suicide; and 3) a Jewish prostitute who gave Hitler syphilis (this is a pet notion of the Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal).
At least six men have contracted syphilis from sexual partners they met at San Francisco Men 4 Men, a chat room hosted by AOL.