Creation of the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sector, on September 28th, 1988, of the Department of Microbiology and Parasitology of the Biomedical Institute of Universidade Federal Fluminense. The sector is dedicated to teaching, research, and extension, mainly in outpatient care for patients with or suspected STD. By 2020, it served more than 40,000 people and has …
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USA apologizes for intentionally infecting Guatemalans with STD, including syphilis, in an unethical “research” in the 1940s. In 2010, the then President of the United States, Barack Obama, called Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom to apologize for the research carried out by the American Public Health Service between 1946 and 1948. During the study, people in …
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National Day to Combat Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis (third Saturday in October). Established by Law 13.430, of March 31st, 2017, sanctioned by the then President Michel Temer. Authored by Congressman Chico D’Angelo, Complementary Law Project 146/2015 originated at the VI Congress of the Brazilian Society of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, in 2006, on a proposal initiated …
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Memoirs of a Barber Surgeon, a novel by Heitor Rosa released on October 19th, 2006 during the XI Congress of History of Medicine, in Goiânia, Goiás, about the life of Girólamo Fracastorii (as Heitor wrote), author of the poem Siphylis sive morbus gallicus. The story is told by Fracastorii's assistant, barber-surgeon Gioacchino dalla Rosa. Rosa’s …
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Louis Mathieu Fréderic Adrien Tribondeau was born on October 27th, 1872 in Sète (Herald, France). He developed, together with Fontana, the method of visualizing Treponema pallidum from scrapings of recent syphilis lesions (primary or secondary), using ammoniacal silver nitrate solution, known as the Fontana-Tribondeau technique. Unfortunately, we were unable to recover the data on Fontana, …
Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was born on October 30th, 1895. German pathologist and bacteriologist, awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discovering the antibacterial effects of Sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI-730). The substance was the first commercially available antibiotic (under the brand name Prontosil).
