Episode 2 - Syphilis
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Send us Fan MailEverybody remembers their first STD, right? Well this is ours! This is actually the first episode that we recorded so please excuse the chaos. Syphilis is a disease with an incredibly dark history and this episode is a heavy one, so please have a listen to the trigger warnings at the start and check it's right for you.ReferencesGray, F. D. (1998). The tuskegee syphilis study. NewSouth Books.Hayden, D. (2003). Pox. Basic Books (AZ).Kenyon, C., Achilleas Tsoumanis, Osbak, K., Marjan Van Esbroeck, Florence, E., Crucitti, T., & Luc Kestens. (2017). Repeat syphilis has a different immune response compared with initial syphilis: An analysis of biomarker kinetics in two cohorts. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 94(3), 180–186. https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2017-053312Kiple, K. F., & Rockwell Graham, R. (Eds.). (1994). The Cambridge World History of Human Diseases (2nd ed., pp. 1025–1033). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1993)NHS . (2022). Overview syphilis. In NHS. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/syphilis/On syphilis as an imitator : An address delivered before the lancashire and cheshire branch of the british medical association : Hutchinson, Jonathan, Sir, 1828-1913 : Free download, borrow, and streaming : Internet archive. (2026). Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/b22379174/page/n3/mode/2upRodriguez, M. A., & García, R. (2013). First, do no harm: The US sexually transmitted disease experiments in Guatemala. American Journal of Public Health, 103(12), 2122–2126. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2013.301520Rogers, K., & Kadner, R. J. (2019). Bacteria - growth of bacterial populations. In Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/science/bacteria/Growth-of-bacterial-populationsStoltey, J., & Cohen, S. (2015). Syphilis transmission: A review of the current evidence. Sex Health, 12(2), 103–109. https://doi.org/10.1071/SH14174Strategic information. (2024). In www.who.int. https://www.who.int/teams/global-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-programmes/stis/strategic-informationTanne, J. H. (2010). President obama apologises to Guatemala over 1940s syphilis study. BMJ, 341(oct04 2), c5494–c5494. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c5494The Historical Memory Recovery Channel. (2026). The Tuskegee Experiment (1990). Youtu.Be. https://youtu.be/fl4ydmjhpam?is=wgbv9olqrvpusn0pWhatisBiotechnology • the sciences, places and people that have created biotechnology. (n.d.). In WhatisBiotechnology.org. Retrieved July 26, 2026, from https://www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/exhibitions/antimicrobial/index/salvarsan
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