Rausa’s district has one of the highest tuberculosis rates in the state. AIDS, too, has come to Mississippi. The spread of crack cocaine and trading sex for drugs are blamed for a tenfold increase in syphilis cases in the last year, including three babies born infected. Health agencies, ...
Advertisement Hatem is widely credited with ridding the world’s most populous nation of most syphilis and gonorrhea, and he had hoped to eliminate leprosy from the country by the year 2000. In mainland China he was known as Dr. Ma Hai-teh, meaning “virtue from overseas.” The son of Le...