Teen-Agers Said Responsible for About Half Of All Venereal Disease Reported in Nation
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Dr. Abraham Gelperin, health accepted as a natural part of
director of Des Moines, la., told
the venereal disease conference
that teen-a?e cases of gonorrhea
have increased so sharply that
ference here last week, from a eon.
Krevsional investigation, and from a
rerent nationwide survey, one big fart
emerced: Despite the mirarle ol peni
cillin, I'D if on the upswing In this
country. This situation is summed up
in the following dispatch.
Br MICHAEL J. O'NEILL
United Prats Correspondent
Washington (U.R An alarm
ing number of carefree Ameri
can teen-agers are playing Rus
sian roulette with venereal dis
ease and losing.
The Public Health Service
says about 200,000 teen-agers
are now getting syphilis and gon
orrhea every year. That's nearly
half of all the cases reported in
the nation.
Until recently, the venereal
disease rate was declining sharp
ly under the impact of effective
treatment and control programs.
Now it has started to climb.
Professional prostitutes were
once the chief source of infec
tion. Now it is the teen-age ama
teurs, the casual pickup date, so
called ''respectable" people in
every walk of life.
These facts were reported here
last week at the first Interna
tional Symposium on Venerea
Diseases. They also figure prom
inently in a Senate investigation
of juvenile delinquency and in a
joint statement issued by the
nation's leading VD-fighting or
ganizations. Penicillin is an almost sure
fire cure for VD. Ironically, it
also is one of the chief reasons
for the current slump in the cam
paign to wipe out one of man's
greatest scourges.
The wonder drug has proved
so effective that much of the na
tion's elaborate VD control ma
chinery has been dismantled.
And, more important, it has re
moved much of the fear which
once applied a heavy check to
the "15-19" aae group now must I rhea.
growing up . . . our youth does
not learn, is willing to take the
chance, is grossly misinformed,
or is contemptuous of gonor-
be considered the key to any
control program."
"No longer dare we restrict
Some Important Facts
Gelperin said a detailed study
of the teen-age problem in the
Des Moines area showed that
broken homes were only "an
infinitesimal factor" in VD cases.
Far more incriminating, he said,
were such facts as these about
voung people who contracted
VD:
"Practically all the parents
interviewed did not know where
their sons or daughters were or
what they were doing at any
time other than school
Sex education was
"anywhere but home."
None of the infected teen-agers
attended church, except occa
sionally, or belonged to any
church group.
There was often a certain lack
of "mutual respect" among the
various members of the family.
Gelperin and other VD
fighters called for long-term , Magnuson and his tides have
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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1956
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Grant Girl Named
Portland Rose Queen
Portland U.R It's Queen
Sharon I.
Thousands of subjects of the
realm of rosaria waited breath
lessly at Multnomah stadium
last night until 10:20 p.m. when
the dark haired princess from
Grant high school stepped out
to acknowledge the plaudits of
the crowd and the best wishes
or her regal court, made up of
seven lovlies from seven other
city high schools.
Queen Sharon is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Frey.
Sharon, the tallest of the 1956
court, stands 5-feet 7'4 inches.
A crowd of 15,149 braved
cool, threatening weather to
witness the annual queen selec
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to a charity performance of T.
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princess danced until 3 a.m. at
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obtained community programs to alert
teen-agers to the dangers of VD
and to steer them into whole
some and healthy channels.
Dr. C. A. Smith, head of the
Health Service's venereal disease
program, also urged a nationwide
physician cooperation program
to help health officers track
down and treat VD contacts to
prevent the disease from "spread
ing unnoticed in the communi
ty."
For a variety of reasons, most
VD victims are now going to
private physicians instead of to
public clinics. This has made
control, investigation and treat
ment of- contacts more difficult.
In a joint statement in Febru
ary, the state health officers and
the major venereal disease asso
ciations called for a big federal
aid program to help maintain a
permanent, nationwide control
program.
Better methods of treatment
and diagnosis still are being
sought. There is even hope that
science may some day be able
to develop a vaccine against the
venereal diseases.
At the VD symposium here,
however. Dr. Harold J. Magnu
son of the Health Service said
there is little immediate prospect
for an effective vaccine.
been able to boost the immunity
of a victim of late syphilis with
injections of killed treponema
pallidum, the micro - organism
which causes the disease. But
the vaccine seems to provide no
immunity to persons with early
syphilis or no syphilis at all. For
some reason the blood antibodies
which defend human beings
against viruses do not seem to
help much against syphilis.
Magnuson said, however, that
there has been considerable pro
gress in developing better diag
nostic tests for syphilis. The
trouble with most tests is that
they produce a number of "false
positives" which cause consider
able trouble and embarrass
ment for both physician and !
patient. 1
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(TPCF) test seems to be more (
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offer only a false sense of secu
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come from world-wide vigilance
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of merely containing these dis
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