my features published in @CurrentBiology this year, issue 5: #AncientDNA reveals the unusual origins of #syphilis
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-mysteries-of-syphilis.html #science #medicine #infectiousDiseases
🇨🇺 | #Cuba: First country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of #HIV and #syphilis, validated by the #WHO and #PAHO in 2015.
Another historic triumph for Cuban public healthcare, the result of universal prenatal care, free access to medicine, and the commitment of thousands of healthcare workers.
All this while being under #USA embargo...
✅ Confirmed: Cuban #socialism is a threat to #capitalist selfishness.
In the 1930s, #Anslinger's anti-cannabis articles often contained #racist themes.
Colored students at the Univ. of Minn. partying with (white) female students, smoking [#marijuana] and getting their sympathy ...
Two #Negroes took a girl fourteen years old and kept her for two days ... #syphilis.[28]
#Reefer makes #darkies think they're as good as #whitemen.[29]
🌱 #Cannabis als #WerkzeugdesRassismus und #Faschismus
Der #warondrugs eine #Lüge❓
Une #explosion #brutale des cas de #syphilis en #Argentine, aggravée par les #coupes #budgétaires
Le ministère de la Santé argentin a récemment communiqué des chiffres inquiétants : le nombre de nouveaux cas de syphilis a augmenté de 71 % en 2025 par rapport à la médiane des cinq dernières années. Une crise qui s’est aggravée avec les coupes dans les budgets de prévention réalisées par le gouvernement de Javier Milei.
Le ministère de la Santé argentin a récemment communiqué des chiffres inquiétants : le nombre de nouveaux cas de syphilis a augmenté de 71 % en 2025 par rapport à la médiane des cinq dernières années. Une crise qui s’est aggravée avec les coupes dans les budgets de prévention réalisées par le gouvernement de Javier Milei.
There is no doubt that syphilis is affecting his brain;
“ President Donald Trump said Wednesday that anything less than U.S. control of Greenland is unacceptable, hours before Vice President JD Vance was to host Danish and Greenlandic officials for talks. ”
A top Danish official says a “fundamental disagreement” over Greenland remains with President Donald Trump after talks in Washington with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The two sides did agree to create a working group to discuss ways to work through differences as Trump continues to call for a U.S. takeover of Denmark’s Arctic territory of Greenland. Trump said before the talks that Greenland is essential for U.S. national security and he warned against Russian or Chinese influence. Meanwhile, Denmark announced plans to boost the country’s military presence in Arctic and North Atlantic.
The first 2 years consult a reputable physician 91% of syphilitic infections relapse in this period : The disease may be transmitted to others who contact the lesion. [1936 or 1937]
1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color. | Poster encouraging persons with syphilis to seek treatment as soon as possible to avoid transmitting the disease to others.
#NewYorkCitys #THEFIRST2YEARS #approximately91% #first #healthcare #posters #newyork #screenprints #syphilis #newyork(state) #color #photopgraphy #LibraryOfCongress
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