1999-11-01 17:18:35+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Federal health officials hope they can eradicate syphilis. Due to the consciousness of safe sex brought on by AIDS, syphilis rates are down to 2.6 cases per 100,000, and most of them are "concentrated in 28 of the nation's 3,100 counties".
"...for reasons scientists cannot quite explain, the disease runs in cycles of seven to 10 years; the cycle is now at its low ebb. The goal is to keep it from ever rising again."