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Aboriginal STDs
The rate of STDs in Australia's aboriginal communities is shockingly high, and a new report proposes a controversial plan to stop infection.
Catherine Price [2008-02-05]

  • preventing blindness vs. STDs

    Didn't most states once require silver nitrate drops to be put in all newborns' eyes to prevent blindness? I think the reason was that a lot of G.I.s unknowingly came back with chlamidya from WWII, gave it unwittingly to their wives, and the wives passed it on to their babies' eyes during childbirth. Then the babies went blind.

    The vast majority of baby boomers got these, but yet most were never at risk for blindness because their mothers didn't have chlamidya.

    -- Leeandra Nolting
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    Tuesday, February 5, 2008 05:00 PM
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