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World News and Trends: The tenacious grip of syphilis

  • by John Ross Schroeder, Melvin Rhodes
Los Angeles Times health writer Julie Marquis tells us that "syphilis, a centuries-old human scourge, sustains itself these days on a noxious brew of poverty, racial inequality and hopelessness." Yet some people think the disease died with Al Capone.