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How about a venereal disease thread?
I read the other day that in the entire history of mankind there has only been a single 40 year window without the threat of a fatal venereal disease. Prior to penicillin, syphillis was quite deadly. In fact, smallpox got it's name in part because syphillis was called the "greatpox". Forty years after Alexander Fleming gave the world penicillin, the African Green Monkey gave us HIV. Fascinating stuff.
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Last edited by Moses; 05-07-2004 at 11:08 AM..
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