Robert Kennedy, Jr.

In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had syphilis. They offered them free healthcare, hot lunches, and free burial. They said you can only come to us for healthcare. These were men who were sharecroppers, and they had syphilis. They were never told they had syphilis.

American Activist

Imelda Marcos

The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.

Celebrity

Karl Kraus

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Austrian Writer

Andre Gide

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

French Novelist

Alexis Carrel

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

French Scientist

Understand that 'syphilis' refers to a serious health issue, not a mild one.

Serious Condition

Talking about 'syphilis' can be uncomfortable as it involves private health matters.

Sensitive Topic

Highlight that 'syphilis' needs medical treatment; it doesn't go away on its own.

Treatment Importance

 While the researchers planned to observe how syphilis would progress with minimal treatment, participants were told they would receive free drugs and care for their condition. At first, researchers gave the men existing treatments, but these were soon replaced with placebos. Under the false pretense of providing a special remedy,

Ugly History: The U.S....

 They were enticed into the study through being given free medical exams, burial insurance. And so, what happened through the course of this study, is penicillin was discovered to help treat syphilis. And what Peter noticed was, the participants in this study were not given the penicillin

How whistle-blowers...

 where I work with medical students and residents in an effort to begin to help them unlearn some of these harmful patterns that make it easier to see some things, like dark skin with syphilis, and harder to see others, like dark skin with erythema migrans.

Jenna C. Lester: Why...

 is diagnose -- that is, put you into a category and apply a scientifically proven treatment for that diagnosis -- and that works great for infectious diseases. So if we put you in the category of you've got syphilis, we can give you penicillin.

Danny Hillis:...

 We think it is easy money. We think it is shortcut. We think the person likes to do what she's doing. But the extra bonuses that she gets is various infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV, AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea, you name it,

The fight against sex...

 it seemed to work. It actually became the standard treatment for syphilis until penicillin was widely used decades later. And its driving force was fever. There are many mysteries around fever, but what we do know is that all mammals,

Why do you get a fever...

 What you're looking at is a medical tool used to treat syphilis. Ouch! For each of these, there are thousands of other incredibly important discoveries made by my colleagues, that do not make headlines.

Help discover ancient...

 and then giving you oxygen by tent. If you had early signs of paralysis and you were really good at asking personal questions, you might figure out that this paralysis someone has is from syphilis,

How do we heal medicine?...

 who at the time of death was suffering from venereal syphilis this was an adult male he suffered a severe blow to the head resulting in blunt force trauma it's very important that we take time to

What Lies Beneath...

 a pneumonia, syphilis, tuberculosis -- and transforming that into a curable, or treatable illness. You have a pneumonia, you take penicillin, you kill the microbe and you cure the disease.

Syphilis