University Daily Kansan
Rise is Local, National
Wednesday, April 21, 1971
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Number of VD Cases Still Increasing
By SHARON HUNSAKER
The major venereal diseases-
syphilis and gonorrhea—presently have the upper hand in man's fight against the diseases. And the resulting plight has been extended to women in Kansas and for Douglas county.
From 1959 to 1969, the number of reported cases of syphilis and gonorrhea more than doubled in the United States, William J. Brown, chief of the DV branch for the disease Control at Atlanta, Ga., in the April issue of "Medical of Human Sexuality."
He said the number of reported cases of syphilis jumped from 30,000 in doubled from 237,000 to 494,000 in addition, for the year ending June 30, 1970. There was an increase in syphilis totals. For 1970 they expect close to 550,000 cases of exoneration, an increase of more than a quarter.
In the last two years, the reported cases represent only one-fourth of the actual number of VD cases. Brown estimated that 50 percent of infectious syphilis in 1989 instead of 18,000. Richard Lockhart, chief of the VD section of the Kansas State Health Department, there were 2 million cases of goonera in 1970, not 50,000.
"If the population heard that
War Survey In Progress
The canvassing of Lawrence for opinion on the war in Indochina is progressing well.
Louis Wolfe, director of the Lawrence Peace Center and one of the coordinators of the canvassing effort, said that results he had seen were "very encouraging." He said he had only seen a few of the returned questionnaires and did not expect any comprehensive tabulation of the results.
The canvass began last Wednesday with a rally in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. After the rally about 70 people volunteered to go. The delegation obtained local opinion on the war.
The canvassers have been asking people whether they applaud the troops or would require the withdrawal of all American troops from Vietnam by Dec. 31, 1971. People have spoken and sign the Peoples Peace Treaty.
Wolfe said that in one block of 18 houses there were 13 that were owning the house and 5 persons. Of those 13, Wolfe said, *12* approved of the withdrawn waiver.
After the treaties have been collected, he said, they will be passed to Congress. Coaction, an organization that is sponsoring various national antiwar tactics this spring, has held a hard-fought debate by several congressmen to read the names of the signers of the treaties into the Congressional Record.
there were actually 2 million cases of gomorra last year, they would panic. But with 500,000 people aren't "Lockhart
"THEY THINK veneer disease happens to someone else—the bad people on the other side of town. But studies show veneer disease is going down in age and going up in society."
Although there are other types of VD besides syphilis and gonorrhea, they get little attention because there are less cases of HIV infection each year, he said. Also the other types of DV are painful and the infected usually seek help, whereas with syphilis and gonorrhea, the
"Studies show that venereal disease is going down in age and up in society."
victims may be unaware of their condition for months or years
The invasion of syphilis into the body has been divided into three stages—primary, the stage of the initial sore; secondary, the organism throughout the body; tertiary, when all signs of the disease disappear and the syphilis hides but is not gone. In the late stage, disease can involve almost any organ, so it often attacks the nervous system.
GONOCOCLI, the bacteria that cause gonorrhoe, pass from one person to another almost invariably through sexual intercourse. It infects primarily the genital and adjacent structures and if it occurs in the heart causes serious infection of the heart valves or acute arthritis.
Of all the reportable communicable diseases, the venereal diseases have been ranked number one in Kansas, just as
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they were ranked number one in the nation, Lockhart said in a recent interview. Even if syphilis are separated, gonorrhea is still present. Kansans each year than streptococcus, ranked second; syphilis, ranked third; hepatitis, ranked fourth; measles, ranked fifth.
In Kansas, Lockhart has the incidence of syphilis has risen to 80 reported cases last year to 64 in the past six month period. Although he made no prediction for the total number of annual fiscal year, he said, "We have the data on syphilis epidemic... but one case of syphilis possible." Taking into account identification all stages of syphilis, Kansas has 62.3 cases of syphilis per 100,000 population and has remained in the upper half of the states.
GONORHEA, which presently has the highest incidence in the United States since 1919, has been increasing in all states, including Kansas. Lockhart study easily end the present fiscal year with 9,000 cases of gonorhea, compared to 6,500 cases reported last year. Because studies have shown that gonorrhea affects 280,000 men in the United States, Kansas has been ranked in the top one-third of the states.
In 1970, the incidence of venereal disease in Douglas County was higher than average. Lockhart said Five Kansas gonorrhea cases were gonorrhea reported than Douglas County. Last year, the county had 7 cases of infectious primary and secondary infection, an increase of 3 from the previous 6 cases of late xiphia, a decrease of 4 from 1699; and 164 cases of gonorrhea, an increase of 38 from the previous 164 similar increases for 1971.
To Dr. Dale Clinton, Lawrence and Douglas County Health officer, VD has always been an important county. Its gonorrhea—not syphilis—that has accounted for the VD treatment given by the Hampshire chapter, 701 New Hampshire. Clinton said the number of VD cases in Douglas County were comparable to other counties its
Although there were 180 reported cases of gonorrhea in the county last year, Clinton estimated that there were 500 unknown to the infected and others that went unreported.
The clinic controls VD through indemnification of an infected person's sex partners (contacts) or the presence of them before they can transmit the disease to others. Clinton said a long, drawn out process had been undertaken with contacts, and he suggested that instead, all contacts should be notified immediately, within the clinic. The clinic also uses preventive drugs, trolling VD. They dispense condoms or administer a penicillin pills to people who have had a preventive contact within 12 hours.
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There hasn't been a "king-size increase at KU," but the increase of VD in the United States, Dr. Erik Sandberg, chief health center director, said. The health service usually has four to 12 new or repeated cases of venomous snakes, five few cases of syphilis each year. From January to February, the hospital handed eight new cases of gonorrhea, seven males and females.
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Kather than attributing the increase in VD to promiscuity, he noted that the increased mobility of population's increased mobility and 'mashe an increase in population'
"Some of them feel that sexual contact is a calculated risk, and they know when they have VD and get treatment," he said.
The clinic treats DV cases by using penicillin, for 25 cents, and tetracycline or aryloxymycin, for 30 cents. They also treat their patients were repeaters who didn't feel the disease was so bad after they were quickly cured.
Lockhart said the number of reported cases at KU may look like an increase, but actually it's better reporting. He said today's news so reluctant to seek medical attention were seven or eight years ago.
SCHWEGLER SUGGESTED that those who have had sexual contact should protect against infection by using a condom and medical attention if they have had a suspicious contact.
The traditional epidemiologic case-finding used in controlling syphilis has its problems in applying the method, said that gonorrhea had a short incubation period, three to eight days; syphilis incubation period of ten days to three weeks; sheer short incubation period leaves little time for examiners to locate and treat contacts before they spread the disease. Also a man's symptoms when he is unaware of an urination and discharges, are usually evident, whereas when women itself in school, Schwegler said.
He said studies had estimated that 10 per cent of women have a positive reaction to VD and are unaware of it. Because of these differences, gonorrhea spread "like ripples when a stone is tossed in." The "Christmas tree effect" of the disease was apparently demonstrated by a woman was found to be the source of some 300 cases of gonorrhea.
Diagnosis of gonorrhea has been made more difficult because there is no test for Gonorrhea comparable to the relatively simple syphilis. Gonorrhea's presence must be confirmed by a smear
SYMPTOMS OF syphilis make it somewhat easier to detect than gonorrhea. In the primary stage, lesions in the area of initial contact with the spirochette appear and in the secondary stage, the body and there may be a throat, a mild fever or a headache.
"One case of syphilis could mean a possible epidemic."
test which is sometimes unreliable, a florinecein-stained slide which calls for trained biologists to perform molecular culture which takes 24 hours in incubation. Lockhart pointed out that adequate detection tests were desperately needed or a test is needed to prevent the disease.
--less susceptible to penetration by penicillin, he said.
ALTHOUGH PENICILLIN is still effective in treating syphilis, gonococcus—the organism that produces gonorrhea—has a lower rate than penicillin. Lookhard said. Since World War II, the units of penicillin required to treat VD have increased greatly, and the Kansas State Health Department now recommends 4.8 million penicillins per year for units for males. The units differ because a female's tissues are
Recently a law was passed that requires all labs to notify the state of reactive or positive test for VD. Locchart said the law had been waived for VD and VD. Another aid to detection has been a Kansas law that permits a physician to examine and treat minors for VD without parental consent. However, the law does not require the physician from 'eating parents'.
Lockhart thinks that one reason for the VD increase has been the misconception that penicillin is the only drug he disease. He said that last year Kansans spent one-half million dollars to support the syphilis treatment and ten percent of the tensile of the syphilis insane in publicly supported mental hospitals cost about $40 million a year. In addition, the Aspects of Human Sexuality." In addition $4.5 million was used to care for the syphilic blind and continued that each year 2,000 people in the United States die of syphilis.
"With these figures we can't approach control," he said.
LOCKHART SAID he was not optimistic about the possibility of curbing gonorrhea or syphilis. Case-finding, an important phase in monitoring, has been compromised by the private physician. Although all states require that VD cases be reported on a local health service or in the cases are reported. He said that in 1968, the American Medical Association reported that 12 per cent of primary and sexually transmitted diseases were reported and that 14.3 per cent of gonorrhea cases were reported.
Presently, the Kansas venerable disease program has the largest fundraising program's history. Lockhart said she not complain about funding, although they were in need of more funds for educational programs and pamphlets. Money allocated to the program by the state health department and the federal agency totaled 1922 fiscal year totals $100,000
David Heron, director of libraries at KU, said this expansion was a past year's lending of books and documents to students and faculty at the Board of Regent's office. As he explained, operation he, said, led to the broadening of the idea under the control system in WATSON.
In their letters to the 20 schools, both chalmers and Heron invited two students who needed library materials to consider the use of them as a supplement to their own school's collection. The school hoped a reciprocal arrangement could be made for KU students to use the private college libraries.
KU Library Opened To Private Schools
The University of Kansas has offered to extend its library services to all private colleges in the state and to Laurence Chalmers II, said reportman.
By WALTER LIETZEN Kansan Staff Writer
In a letter to the presidents of 20 privately supported institutions Chalmers said he was delighted to be able to offer this new service to private colleges. Only state universities and conductors under the Kansas Board of Regents have had access to the KU library.
The goal is to begin the program by May 1 with a minimum of red tape, Heron said.
Participating libraries are to provide a brief letter of information to users. They are also to assist Kirk retrieving overdue books borrowed by members of their library or for fines and replacement of lost books. With these restrictions, libraries are available to visiting users from
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