Sexually Transmitted Diseases a Waste of Military Manpower

Sexually transmitted diseases: a waste of military manpower.

Introduction The Ivery great increase in the incidence of the sexually transmitted diseases (STD)tJhroughout,the 1960s has been one of the most disaJppointing and unexpected medical .and social developments of our times. It had ,been hoped that with the advent of penic1llin and other antibiotics in the bte 1940s that the number of new pa,tients with these [nfections would have declined, and tha...

[Sexually transmitted diseases (S.T.D.)].

Sexually transmitted diseases in sexually abused children.

To determine the prevalence and pattern of sexually transmitted diseases among sexually abused children, we evaluated 532 victims under 14 years of age for the presence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Treponema pallidum. Twenty-five girls with vaginal discharge and six children with perineal skin lesions underwent more detailed microbiologic examination. Thirty-four infections were identified in 3...

Sexually TranSmiTTed infeCTionS among miliTary reCruiTS

Sexually transmitted diseases in Ukraine.

Letters epidemics occur (e.g., diphtheria in eastern Europe in the early and mid-1990s) (9). If needed, the World Health Organization can provide information on confirmed and uncon-firmed epidemics on a weekly basis. Travel and peacekeeping mission statistics share similarities. In Namibia, the South African Armed Forces had most often observed hepatitis (unspecified), with rare cases of tuberc...