Social Diseases 1 (The Clap; Gonorrhea) - New Telegraph Newspaper
The scene It's been a long time at sea. The crew couldn't wait to unwind at the nearest city, they felt liberated; off they zoom into the night. They had money to throw around, a thing led to the other and some actually had unprotected sexual exposure. About 5 days later at sea, 2 of them complained of severe pain during urination and whitish discharge from the urinary opening. This could point to Gonorrhea aka ''The clap' aka The drip. A Social disease is a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact. History Earliest records of the disease are was in 1611 when the English parliament enacted a law to ensure that the spread of the infection is decreased and curbed. This shows the magnitude of the public health problem this infection had posed then. However, even then the cause of the infection was unknown. A German physician named Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser discovered the pathogen of gonorrhea in 1879. Thus, t...