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Syphilis
About Syphilis
The first European epidemic was among French troops besieging Naples. Called the French disease in Italy, the Italian disease in France. Mercury was the treatment for centuries, poisoning patients as much as the disease. Penicillin became the cure in 1943. Tuskegee experiment studied untreated syphilis in Black men for 40 years without consent.
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