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a common STD caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages
- In pursuit of this radical idea, I'm going to take you to Baltimore, to learn from the epidemic of syphilis in that city.Introduction (94% in)
- ONE The Three Rules of Epidemics In the mid-1990s, the city of Baltimore was attacked by an epidemic of syphilis.Chapter 1 (0% in)
- If you look at Baltimore's syphilis rates on a graph, the line runs straight for years and then, when it hits 1995, rises almost at a right angle.Chapter 1 (1% in)
- What caused Baltimore's syphilis problem to tip?Chapter 1 (2% in)
- Crack is known to cause a dramatic increase in the kind of risky sexual behavior that leads to the spread of things like HIV and syphilis.Chapter 1 (3% in)
- Crack, the CDC said, was the little push that the syphilis problem needed to turn into a raging epidemic.Chapter 1 (4% in)
- The breakdown in treatment made syphilis a much bigger issue than it had been before.Chapter 1 (10% in)
- His culprits are the physical changes in those years affecting East and West Baltimore, the heavily depressed neighborhoods on either side of Baltimore's downtown, where the syphilis problem was centered.Chapter 1 (12% in)
- For years syphilis had been confined to a specific region of Baltimore, within highly confined sociosexual networks.Chapter 1 (15% in)
- The housing dislocation process served to move these people to other parts of Baltimore, and they took their syphilis and other behaviors with them.Chapter 1 (16% in)
- What they were saying is that there was a subtle increase in the severity of the crack problem in the mid-1990s, and that change was enough to set off the syphilis epidemic.Chapter 1 (18% in)
- All it took, he said, was the demolition of a handful of housing projects and the abandonment of homes in key downtown neighborhoods to send syphilis over the top.Chapter 1 (20% in)
- When the clinics were cut back, syphilis was given a second life.Chapter 1 (22% in)
- Potterat, for his part, was focused on the people who were carrying syphilis.Chapter 1 (23% in)
- Syphilis, he was saying, was a disease carried by a certain kind of person in Baltimore — a very poor, probably drug-using, sexually active individual.Chapter 1 (23% in)
- If that kind of person was suddenly transported from his or her old neighborhood to a new one — to a new part of town, where syphilis had never been a problem before — the disease would have an opportunity to tip.Chapter 1 (24% in)
- When we say that a handful of East Village kids started the Hush Puppies epidemic, or that the scattering of the residents of a few housing projects was sufficient to start Baltimore's syphilis epidemic, what we are really saying is that in a given process or system some people matter more than others.Chapter 1 (27% in)
- In Baltimore, when the city's public clinics suffered cutbacks, the nature of the syphilis affecting the city's poor neighborhoods changed.Chapter 1 (49% in)
- But with the cutbacks, syphilis increasingly became a chronic disease, and the disease's carriers had three or four or five times longer to pass on their infection.Chapter 1 (50% in)
- Every time someone in Baltimore comes to a public clinic for treatment of syphilis or gonorrhea, John Zenilman plugs his or her address into his computer, so that the case shows up as a little black star on a map of the city.Chapter 1 (76% in)
- The seasonal effect on the number of cases is so strong that it is not hard to imagine that a long, hard winter in Baltimore could be enough to slow or lessen substantially — at least for the season — the growth of the syphilis epidemic.Chapter 1 (81% in)
- In Baltimore, syphilis spreads far more in the summer than in the winter.Chapter 4 (17% in)
- You can prevent crimes just by scrubbing off graffiti and arresting fare-beaters: crime epidemics have Tipping Points every bit as simple and straightforward as syphilis in Baltimore or a fashion trend like Hush Puppies.Chapter 4 (50% in)
- The Centers for Disease Control's explanation for the Baltimore syphilis epidemic can be found in the Mortality and Morbidity Weekly ENDNOTES Report, "Outbreak of Primary and Secondary Syphilis — Baltimore City, Maryland.End Notes (21% in)
- The Centers for Disease Control's explanation for the Baltimore syphilis epidemic can be found in the Mortality and Morbidity Weekly ENDNOTES Report, "Outbreak of Primary and Secondary Syphilis — Baltimore City, Maryland.End Notes (22% in)
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