TITLE

Rude health

AUTHOR(S)
Motluk, Alison
PUB. DATE
March 2002
SOURCE
New Scientist;3/9/2002, Vol. 173 Issue 2333, p12
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Reports on the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) compared to the incidence in the sixties in Great Britain. Need for educating the school-children about the dangers of unsafe sex; Factors influencing Outbreaks of syphilis INSET: The future of safe sex.
ACCESSION #
6417832

Tags: SEXUALLY transmitted diseases;  CENTERS for Disease Control & Prevention (U.S.)

 

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