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	Sexually-transmitted infection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They were commonly known as venereal diseases (VD; Venere is the Italian name of Venus, the Roman goddess of love) until some time around 1990, when public health officials introduced the new term in an effort to improve the clarity of their warnings to the public.
		It is not possible to catch any sexually transmitted disease from a sexual activity with a person who is not carrying a disease; conversely a person who has an STD got it from contact (sexual or otherwise) with someone who had it, or their bodily fluids.
		However, sexually transmitted diseases are potentially transmitted in any form of sexual relationship, so it is important that all members of the community who are engaged in sexual relationships use safer sex precautions, regardless of the nature of their relationships.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venereal_disease (1218 words)

	Victorian London - Disease - Venereal disease
		agree that the proportion of venereal diseases is very large, and that even the physicians see among their cases a large proportion of syphilitic complaints, affecting not only the external but the internal parts of the body....
		Neither the disease nor our treatment are in general so much to be blamed for the worst phases which the former even now occasionally assumes, as the naturally bad constitution of the sufferer or the perverse industry he has applied to the debilitation of a sound one.
		The total of venereal beds is, as we have seen, in St Bartholomew's, 75; in Guy's, 58; in Middlesex, 20; in the Royal Free, 26; in the Lock, exclusive of those required by Government, 30.
	www.victorianlondon.org /disease/venerealdisease.htm (4972 words)

	Visual Culture - Infectious Disease - Venereal Disease
		Along with tuberculosis, progressive reformers and social critics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries identified venereal disease as the quintessential product of a series of transformations in American life in the post-Civil War years including the rapid growth of cities, the increase in immigration, and the changing nature of the family.
		First, the woman is invariably presented as the cause of the problem, frequently personifying the venereal disease itself.
		The image equates venereal disease and "enslaving habits" (such as masturbation) with a loss of personal and political freedom, asking the viewing soldier whether they will choose to be free or chained by the consequences of sexual indiscretion.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /exhibition/visualculture/venereal.html (1463 words)

	Venereal Disease
		If this venereal disease is untreated, it can lead to damage of the nervous system, heart, and brain.
		- This venereal disease is characterized by lesions on the genitals, abdomen, buttocks, or inner thigh.
		This venereal disease causes itching and irritation of the vagina and/or vulva, sometimes accompanied with a whitish discharge.
	www.cyodine.com /venerealdisease (420 words)

	Communicable Disease Fact Sheet
		Venereal warts, also called condyloma, are a common sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) that affects the skin or mucous membranes.
		Venereal warts are generally spread through direct skin-to-skin contact during vaginal, anal and oral sex with someone who is infected.
		Venereal warts appear as soft, fleshy growths that vary in size, are frequently painless and can be raised, pointed or flat.
	www.health.state.ny.us /nysdoh/communicable_diseases/en/vener.htm (581 words)

	* Venereal disease - (Sexuality): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Venereal diseases are also known as sexually-transmitted diseases, or STDs, since they are contracted primarily through sexual activity...
		Sexually transmitted diseases - also known as STDs and once called venereal diseases or VD - are infectious diseases that spread from person to person though intimate contact...
		Intercourse is risky because of the all the venereal diseases, but when lesbians have sex there is no copulation involved...
	en.mimi.hu /sexuality/venereal_disease.html (498 words)

	Research Results For Pox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Goat pox is an epidemic disease of goats caused by a virus infection and characterized by fever and a papulovesicular eruption of the skin and mucous membranes.
		Goldilocks is London Cockney rhyming slang for venereal disease (pox).
		Reverend Ronald Knox is London Cockney rhyming slang for venereal disease (pox).
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Pox&offset=0 (438 words)

	Venereal Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A disease is any abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person affectedor those in contact with the person.
		Medical usage sometimes distinguishes a disease, which has a known specific cause or causes (called its etiology), from a syndrome, which is acollection of signs or symptoms that occur together.
		Illness, although often used to mean disease, can also refer to a person's perception of their health, regardless of whether they in fact have a disease.
	www.moviewavspage.com /sand/26312-venereal-disease.html (342 words)

	venereal disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This bacterium is the cause of the common sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea which operates through inflammation of the genito-urinary tract.
		Any disease mainly transmitted by sexual contact, although commonly the term is used specifically for gonorrhoea and syphilis, both occurring worldwide, and chancroid (‘soft sore’) and lymphogranuloma venerum, seen mostly in the tropics.
		The term sexually transmitted disease (STD) is more often used to encompass a growing list of conditions passed on primarily, but not exclusively, by sexual contact.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0015691.html (195 words)

	VENEREAL DISEASE PHOBIA: Treatment and Hope
		To add insult to an already distressing condition, most venereal disease phobia therapies take months or years and sometimes even require the patient to be exposed repeatedly to their fear.
		venereal disease phobia will likely cost you tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of your lifetime, let alone the cost to your health and quality of life.
		2: venereal disease phobia: a strong fear of, dislike of, or aversion to prostitutes, venereal disease, or stds.
	www.changethatsrightnow.com /problem_detail.asp?SDID=5430:1488 (1462 words)

	Section 15 - SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
		Women, who unknowingly contract gonorrhea from their husbands, generally do not know they have the disease until it is far advanced.
		The disease is transmitted through the discharge produced by both men and women.
		The disease is transmitted by oral, vaginal, and anal sex; common needles for IV drugs; contaminated hospital and dental equipment; commercially prepared blood products; and immunotoxic lubricants.
	www.pathlights.com /nr_encyclopedia/15std01.htm (2650 words)

	Sexually transmitted disease : Venereal disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They were known as venereal diseases (VD) until some time around 1990, when public health officials[?] introduced the new term in an effort to improve the clarity of their warnings[?] to teenagers.
		It isn't possible to catch any sexually transmitted disease from a sexual activity with a person who isn't carrying a disease; conversely a person who has an STD got it from contact (sexual or otherwise) with someone who had it, or their bodily fluids.
		Although the likelihood of transmitting various diseases by various sexual activities varies a great deal, in general, all sexual activities should be considered as being a two-way route for the transmission of STDs (i.e., "giving" or "receiving" are both risky).
	www.eurofreehost.com /ve/Venereal_disease.html (361 words)

	CHAPTER V-2 - Venereal Disease Act
		“venereal disease” means gonorrhoea, syphilis and chancroid, and includes every condition diagnosed by a medical practitioner as a venereal disease.
		7(3) Any person found by a medical practitioner to be affected with venereal disease who refuses or fails to undergo medical treatment therefor by such medical practitioner or to notify the practitioner that he is undergoing medical treatment therefor by some other medical practitioner is guilty of an offence.
		Regional Health Authorities Act to be treated for venereal disease, the regional health authority shall immediately forward to the Director a report on the case in the prescribed form.
	www.gnb.ca /0062/acts/acts/v-02.htm (1239 words)

	RSNL1990 CHAPTER V - 2 - VENEREAL DISEASE PREVENTION ACT
		to report to the minister a case of venereal disease coming under his or her diagnosis, treatment, care or charge for the 1st time.
		(a) is infected with a venereal disease and is unwilling or unable to conduct himself or herself in such a manner so as not to expose another person to the danger of infection; or
		A report or certificate of a physician given for the purposes of subsection 7(1) that a person is infected with gonorrhoea may be given whether or not laboratory findings indicate the presence of gonorrhoea when the clinical findings and history of the person so indicate.
	www.gov.nf.ca /hoa/statutes/v02.htm (2106 words)

	VENEREAL DISEASE ACT
		3 (1) A person infected with a venereal disease who becomes aware or suspects that he or she is infected with a venereal disease must place himself or herself immediately under the care and treatment of a medical practitioner.
		(5) A medical health officer may require a person who the officer believes is or may be infected with a venereal disease or has been exposed or may have been exposed to infection to undergo more than one examination in order to determine the presence or absence of the infection or the effectiveness of treatment.
		(a) is infected with a venereal disease and is unwilling or unable to conduct himself or herself in a manner that does not expose other persons to the infection, or
	www.qp.gov.bc.ca /statreg/stat/V/96475_01.htm (2157 words)

	All about venereal diseases : disease new venereal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	dis-venereal.t35.com /disease_new_venereal.html (789 words)

	Women's Health: What is a venereal disease? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The venereal diseases (VD) are infections usually acquired during sexual intercourse.
		The organisms that cause these diseases are very fragile and cannot survive outside the body.
		Other diseases that may be transmitted by sexual contact include the herpes simplex virus and the wart virus.
	www.2womenshealth.co.uk /20-06.htm (170 words)

	Venereal Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A sexually transmitted venereal disease is an infectious disease which is passed on through any kind of sexual contact, whether vaginal, oral or anal.
		With the exception of the venereal disease AIDS there are good chances of cure for all the sexually transmitted diseases mentioned - provided that medical treatment is started early enough.
		Otherwise serious late effects of the venereal disease are to be feared.
	www.by-choice-not-chance.com /venereal-disease.html (251 words)

	Sex, Sin and Suffering : Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870 (Routledge Studies in the: ...
		This volume brings together a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former colonies.
		Venereal Disease and Society in Britain, from the Contagious Diseases Acts to the National Health Service Lesley Hall 8.
		Venereal Disease, Sexuality and Society in Uganda Michael Tuck 12.
	bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp /htmy/0415234441.html (389 words)

	:: Xinhuanet - English :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		GUANGZHOU, May 24 (Xinhuanet) -- More than 18,930 new venereal disease cases were reported in 2003 in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, one of the country's leading economic powerhouses, a drop of 9.58 percent from a year before.
		In a breakdown, syphilis, gonorrhea, pointed condyloma and non-gonococcal urethritis cases declined remarkably in 2003, but HIV/AIDS infection cases were on a rise, according to the local venereal disease surveillance center.
		The ratio of male to female venereal disease patients was 1.58:1, and those aged between 20 to 29 accounted for the largest proportion of 47.69 percent of local venereal disease patients, said the center.
	news.xinhuanet.com /english/2004-05/24/content_1487832.htm (216 words)

	venereal - definition by dict.die.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		venereal adj : of or relating to the external sex organs; "genital herpes; "venereal disease" [syn: genital]
		(Med.) (a) Arising from sexual intercourse; as, a venereal disease; venereal virus or poison.
		(b) Adapted to the cure of venereal diseases; as, venereal medicines.
	dict.die.net /venereal (82 words)

	Venereal Disease Act -- VENEREAL DISEASE ACT REGULATION
		You are hereby directed under the authority of section 5 (1) of the Venereal Disease Act to present yourself to....................................................................
		(Name of physician) is hereby directed under the authority of section 5 (1) of the Venereal Disease Act to send a signed report or certificate to......................................
		As it appears that you are infected with venereal disease, I hereby direct you under the authority of section 5 (2) and (3) of the Venereal Disease Act
	www.qp.gov.bc.ca /statreg/reg/V/VenerealDisease/70_84.htm (293 words)

	Cures for Venereal Disease
		Nedham surgeon, who is daily successful in curing the venereal disease speedily, takes away all the sores, scabs and pains after a particular manner beyond any thing yet generally known or usually practised, and where all common methods of practice shall fail.
		Hath a speedy and safe cure for the pox or clap [veneral disease], with all its various symptoms, by his famous chymical drink, being pleasant in taste, yet effectual in curing that dangerous disease, which has been the ruin of hundreds by falling into unskilful hands.
		Farther, this tincture especially carries off all relicks of the venereal disease, after ill managed cures, not only cleansing the urinary passages of all sand, gravel, films, or membraneous pellicles, andc.
	www.infopt.demon.co.uk /grub/venereal.htm (1085 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: venereal disease@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		VENEREAL DISEASE [venereal disease] : see sexually transmitted disease.
		doctor claimed that the rise in venereal diseases predetermines the spread of...
		particularly marriage counselling and venereal disease clinics, sought to convince...
	www.highbeam.com /ref/doc0.asp?docid=1E1:X-venereal (203 words)

	YOU SHOULD BE AFRAID TO HAVE CASUAL SEX!
		A recent report from Johns Hopkins shows that 25% of girls between 12 and 19 who show up at school based and sexually transmitted disease clinics are infected with chlamydia (1), a venereal disease that causes infertility, terrible pelvic infections, horrible urinary symptoms, joint pains, a sore throat, a cough, heart attacks and even death.
		You can have a venereal disease and have no symptoms: 1.1% of Japanese men, 6 percent of English, 9 percent of Danish men (5) and 5 percent of American men are infected (6) and many have no symptoms whatever.
		Another study from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta showed that almost all women who still had chlamydia one month after treatment continued their high-risk behavior and were reinfected by new or old partners (1b).
	www.drmirkin.com /women/W205.htm (1348 words)

	Venereal Disease Propaganda
		The text of the poster is "Fool the Axis – use prophylaxis, prophylaxis prevents venereal disease!" During the war the medical corps had a prophylaxis kit that would sometimes be issued to soldiers going into town.
		One of the most interesting Vietnam rumors having to do with venereal disease was that of the mysterious island where service members with the dreaded and incurable "fl syph" were sent to spend their last days in exile.
		An Auxiliary with venereal disease cannot do her job; and a self-inflicted inability to serve is unworthy of an Armed Forces Auxiliary.
	www.psywarrior.com /PSYOPVD.html (6400 words)

	venereal disease research laboratory (VDRL) - General Practice Notebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The VDRL test is a useful screening test for syphilis and is positive within 3 - 4 weeks after primary infection; generally it becomes negative 6 months after treatment.
		Although it is not specific for syphilis, titres are useful in analysis of disease activity and in screening:
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	www.gpnotebook.co.uk /cache/-1664090047.htm (180 words)

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