Between 1939 and 1941 the number of new cases of venereal disease reported from clinics in England nearly doubled.

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They must have thought I had caught something more serious, like pneumonia or a venereal disease, and would remain in bed for a week or so.

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Walk the Freedom Trail, do Sherman's march to the sea, reenact the life of Johnny Appleseed, recreate the discoveries of Lewis and Clark, but without all the venereal disease.

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The Grand Tour has been a tradition of newly rich countries ever since young British aristocrats took to the Continent in the eighteenth century, picking up languages, antiques, and venereal disease.

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Although it is true in the Tasmanian devil and also in dogs, there is this cancer called Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor, CTVT, that is essentially a sexually transmitted disease.

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