venereal disease
Example Sentences
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While syphilis as a venereal disease presents a global health risk, bejel, which is spread by skin contact, only occurs today in very arid regions of Africa and Asia.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
Three years earlier, while pursuing graduate work in history, Buxtun had taken a job at the local Public Health Service office in 1965; he was tasked with tracking venereal disease cases in the Bay Area.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2022
In 1926, the federal government eliminated federal aid to the states to prevent venereal disease, while state appropriations for this purpose declined.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2022
This regulated her clothing, movements and behavior and forced her to undergo regular screenings for venereal disease, a system “designed as much to chasten” women like her as to protect their health.
From Washington Post ● May 17, 2019
We have as much distaste for talking about personal death as for thinking about it; it is an indelicacy, like talking in mixed company about venereal disease or abortion in the old days.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
