Infectious Diseases: The Trouble with Gonorrhea

Doctors have been disappointed more than once in their high hopes of eradicating gonorrhea with wonder drugs, but last week the U.S. Public Health Service reported that before the end of 1963 the anti-gonorrhea campaign may be made vastly more effective. This time it is not a new drug that is arousing new hope, but an improved and speedier way of detecting the disease.

No Immunity. Though gonorrhea is less dramatic than syphilis in its crippling and death-dealing powers, it is not to be taken lightly. It not only produces painful symptoms, but...

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