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Hamilton Spectator | November 04, 2009

GENEVA - A senior Chinese public health official says the tenfold growth in the number of syphilis cases over the past decade in China has been driven by the country's rapid economic growth. Xiang-Sheng Chen says the sexually transmitted disease re-emerged in the 1980s after being virtually eradicat...

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