Just read two internet stories concerning disease. Michael Douglas confessed that the source of his throat cancer was HPV. Therefore, it was a sexually transmitted disease. Another report was about a woman who contracted herpes from using a public tube of lipstick. So what memory stems from this.
Public health training! Part of my education was in public health nursing with two organization. One was the NYC Department of Health. As students, we reported to a public health clinic where we spent our time doing STD cultures. If it came up positive, we gave the required two penicillin shots. We also had to do a "chart" of their sexual contacts, then had to contact the "contacts".
The second organization was the Brooklyn Visiting Nurse Services. We went into "public housing projects" where we confronted a number of different pathologies. The most prominent and most heart breaking were the victims of "tertiary syphilis" . You need to google that! We also saw tuberculosis and "plague".
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