A common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
Increasing rates of new syphilis cases per year have been observed recently.
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There was also a rise of 24 per cent in syphilis cases.
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Effective syphilis self-testing pilots suggest the need for further attention and research.
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Expert commentary: We identified many promising syphilis testing strategies, particularly among MSM.
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It is essential to integrate syphilis control programs with HIV control programs.
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Because of the syph, we all knew that.
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Nietzsche believed it came from the senses and before the syph' scrambled his own, he identified quite a lot.
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Some guys with the Syph, their noses fall right off.
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The important thing is you get the Syph from screwing someone who's already got it.
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"So what's the difference between leprosy and the Syph?" Eddie asked.
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Furthermore the transference of lues, tuberculosis, diphtheria, pneumonia, erysipelas and other infective diseases would be inevitable if sterile precautions were not taken.
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The diagnosis in these cases rests upon the exclusion of lues, and is rendered certain by the removal of a specimen for biopsy.
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"Yes, it is all mad, but the worst is that he has brought the cursed sickness, lues"-(herehe whispered).
Uso de pox en inglés
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Watson reports two cases in which a child in utero had small-pox.
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Upon a general calculation, threescore persons in every hundred have the small-pox.
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Small-pox does not vitiate the blood of a people; this disease does.
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I have mentioned the presence of small-pox in connexion with these Indians.
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But there is a general report that she died of the small-pox.
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And in the meanwhile ye'll no hinder Gilliewhackit to take the small-pox.
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During this state of apprehensive inactivity, the small-pox broke out in Albany.
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This day I hear that the Princess Royal has the small pox.
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I felt as if I had contracted some obscure form of pox.
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I wonder if we could interest her in a case of small-pox.
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Of all the diseases, measles and chicken-pox are probably the most contagious.
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In January, between sixty and seventy persons died from small-pox every day.
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This day Robert Arnold and Joshua Hurd died with the small pox.
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I won't hear him; I can't bear the plague and the small-pox.
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I'm sure you remember how it was to have the chicken pox.
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Then came the bad news: Guy did indeed have the chicken pox.