Urgent outbreak of syphilis as pandemic sees cases rise - the 7 symptoms you need to know
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EDITORIAL: Without unity in EA, our fight against Covid-19 is lost
Saturday January 30 2021
The dissimilar approaches to the pandemic reflect the discordance of politics at a time when East Africa should have been more converged on how to minimise the spread of the pandemic and its impacts. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Summary
Without a coordinated effort in a region of the world, with interconnected communities and porous borders, the benefits of vaccination will be limited in the absence of a coherent and convergent regional strategy.
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Depending on whom you asked, Syphilis, a bacterial infection, that ravaged the world for four centuries, was variously known as the French, Italian, Spanish or Polish disease. Its association with the French among Italians, is connected to its outbreak in 15th Century Naples, following an invasion of the city by the French during the Italian War that raged between 1494 and 1498.