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11/12/2017 / By Janine Acero

Eye syphilis outbreak: CDC warns disease has spread to more than 200 people across 20 states

There has been a steady rise in reported cases of eye syphilis infection in the U.S., according to health officials. Cases of ocular syphilis were once rare, but have been steadily gaining ground in the U.S. – from data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 12 cases were initially reported from two major cities […]

05/24/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Descendants of Tuskegee government-run medical experiments on black men still seeking justice… yet the medical tyranny continues today

Forty-five years after one of the most outrageous examples of unethical medical practices in our nation’s history, The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, was exposed, descendants of its subjects are still calling for justice. This horrific experiment started in 1932, when the sexually transmitted disease syphilis was spreading out of control, particularly in poverty-stricken areas. No good […]

03/27/2017 / By Earl Garcia

Explosion in rickets, gout and scarlet fever caused by processed junk food and inflationary monetary policy

Poor diet, financial insecurity, and falling standards of living are factors that contribute to the rising incidence of Victorian-era diseases — such as gout, rickets, scarlet fever, and syphilis — in modern-day Great Britain. The U.K. Faculty of Public Health (FPH) stressed that poor wage growth and persistent inflation has greatly affected nutrition intake among poorer […]

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