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But when I go really far back in time, to the days when everyone was dying of cholera and syphilis and bubonic plague, I want nothing to do with those periods. I mean, nobody showered. That's why perfume became such a popular item.

Matt Dillon
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Now we all know that Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave JFK a case of syphilis so bad it eventually blew out the back of his head.

Stephen Colbert
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Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Peter Lewis Allen
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The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004.

John Douglas
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It's like the Roman Empire. Wasn't everybody running around just covered with syphilis? And then it was destroyed by the volcano.

Joan Collins
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Syphilis is back as sex diseases rise.

Japan Times
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The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004. There are clear signs that increases have increased primarily among men who have sex with men [MSM].

John Douglas
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Our concern is just that people are being safe. [Syphilis] is rampant in the gay community, and in the general community for that matter. It's a double concern.

Lyn Nelson
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