Venereal Disease Increasing in US
By Jerry Kern (First of a 2-part series)
Venereal disease is spreading so rapidly that it now represents this nation's most urgent communicable disease problem.
This statement from the American Medical Association opens the AMA's nationwide campaign to encourage prevention and prompt treatment.
The venereal diseases are infesting 1,100,000 Americans a year about 3,000 a day, or almost two a minute, according to the AMA report.
Cases of infectious syphilis have almost trebled in this country in the past five years. More than a million new cases of gonorrhea are developing annually. The diseases have long since reached epidemic proportions in some large cities.
This is all needless tragedy, because syphilis and gonorrhea can be easily cured. The cure for both diseases—penicillin—has been available since 1943.
"Gonorrhea cases are not always reported because this disease can usually be cured by only one shot of penicillin. Syphilis may take 10 days of penicillin treatment," said Dr. R. L. Hermes of Medical Arts Center in Lawrence.
Complacency, ignorance, and a free-and-easy attitude toward moral standards are partly responsible for the increase in VD, as are increasing uses of alcohol and homosexuality, according to the AMA.
VD is transmitted by intimate personal contact. In the case of syphilis, the first symptom may be a painless ulcerating sore. It develops where the germs enter the body, usually about three weeks following intimate contact with an infectious person. Its appearance can vary, however, from 10 days to several weeks after infection.
The sore, known as a chance, is usually in, on, or near the sex organs, although other areas such as the lips, throat, or skin of the hands may be involved.
A person may contract syphilis and at first be unaware that he has the disease. The paulless chancre may be unnoticed, particularly in the female genital organs, or it may appear to be no more than a cold sore on the lips. Since a chancre will heal by itself, the infected person may believe he is cured when it disappears.
After the chancre clears up, there may be a period with no symptoms. This is followed in two weeks to six months by the "second stage" of syphilis. Some persons develop fever, sore throat, and severe headaches. Skin conditions also develop, varying from a fine rash to pox-like postules, a measles-type rash, or oozing sores. Sores about the mouth are frequent.
After the second stage is passed, the germs of syphilis may remain hidden in the body for as long as 20 years before any damage is discovered.
The patient may become crippled, develop heart disease, blood vessel disease, blindness, or show mental symptoms. Even death may result from this third, or hidden, stage of syphilis.
Three R's Popular KU Subjects
Professors at KU may not use hickory sticks, but they still teach a lot of reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic.
the four most popular majors among juniors and seniors enrolled in the College last year.
According to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Catalog for 1965-66, English and mathematics, along with political science and zoology, were
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