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TOP TEN REASONS WE CAN GIVE GEORGE SYPHILIS:
1. Syphilis goes AWAY. It’s a serious STD. If untreated it causes madness and death – however- once diagnosed it can be treated and cured with ONE SHOT OF PENICILLIN.
2. Rockdale County – an upper middle class community – had an outbreak of syphilis among white fifteen-year-old college bound girls.
3. It has a nickname: “The Syph”
4. 9/21/04 – breaking news – sharp increase in cases of syphilis in New York state.
5. 70,000 incidents a year – that’s 192 a day and 8 an hour.
6. An Epidemiologist from the CDC, stated an outbreak of syphilis among Surgical Interns is completely reasonable and plausible event because of the following:
a. Our characters move in a closed network of people.
b. Long hours, lots of stress and little contact with people outside the hospital can lead to having unprotected sex with people you work with.
7. Syphilis has catchy prevention campaign slogans such as:
a. Look What’s Back! Syphilis!
b. Stop the sores.
c. Making every penis a healthy penis.
8. The anti-syphilis campaign has TWO mascots:
a. A healthy cartoon penis.
b. Mr. Phil, a red cartoon syphilis lesion
9. ER hasn’t done it.(My personal favorite. I used to live for ER.)
10. Did we mention that syphilis is completely CURABLE with ONE shot?!
