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Migrants linked to 'epidemic' of syphilis

CHINA is experiencing an epidemic of syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease that the country virtually wiped out in the 1960s, a senior public health official was quoted as saying yesterday. In the WHO Bulletin,... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Tue, Nov 03 2009

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