#Syphilis

AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY

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Two French doctors recently suggested carrying out covid-19 vaccine trials on Africa and unfortunately this is not something new...J. Marion Sims, “the Father of Gynecology” experimented on enslaved black women

Matt Couch 🎙

From 1932 & 1972 by the United States Public Health Service. purpose of this study was to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis; the African American men in the

Maria Regina Hanson

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1) Something happened in the late 1960s when I was studying microbiology. Suddenly tuberculosis and leprosy became so virulent that it would not respond to the normal antibiotics used at

uché blackstock, md

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1) Since the pandemic started, people have been saying science has been politicized by this administration as if this is something new. Science *is* and has always been political, especially

1/ The history of human experimentation is endlessly fascinating (& troubling).I recently came across this 1932 study from Edvin Brusgaard demonstrating that the agent that causes herpes zoster (shingles) can

1. Before Project MKULTRA, there was Operation ARTICHOKE. It was a CIA project that researched interrogation methods.Preceded by Project Bluebird, ARTICHOKE officially arose on Aug 20, 1951 and was operated

Colonizers have stolen, murdered, lynched their way to the top since they got here. Allow me to elaborate. Did you know when the US took control of Mexican land (Tx,

LouiseRawAuthor

Can confirm. And these vile ‘experiments’ went on for nearly a decade. And the health of the Indian soldiers, some of whom were hospitalised as a result of severe burns,

1/ #Covid The very nasty #history of the ‘Ussens’ v ‘Themmuns’ over disease outbreaks - An aul historian wryly observed, “the increased movement of people across national borders/areas reinforced the

miki¹²⁷ #BLM

Did you know that on May 13th, 1985 Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on the home of members of the black liberation group MOVE, killing 11 of the 13 who

I'm gonna try and be short with this, but it's quite impractical as each of these infections probably need a thread of their own. [Thread on STI/STD's]https://twitter.com/tshi_nakanyane/status/1319612549470576641 Firstly, these

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Just Imagine the following things didn’t mean what they actually meant, wouldn’t they have been great names for people? #Thread Marijuana Cocaine Chlamydia Areola Diarrhea Ecstasy Syphilis

inhumane/terrible secret things the us gov has done to its own citizens: a thread let’s start off with the Tuskegee study which was backed by the US Public Health Service.

still no class analysis? still no understanding of how intelligence agencies drives beliefs in conspiracy theories to sow social and politics unrest???? okay thenhttps://twitter.com/abbieasr/status/1312512066071060480 explain to me how thin

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Unfortunately Mike's transformation from relatably awkward comedian to your suburban white mom's favorite NPR comedian was a long time coming but is now complete "How could a country that started

nidhi🌈🧚‍♀️

THREAD ON MY FIRST TIME AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD !!! so for background: this was my first time getting tested bc i’ve been very very scared about it due to all