 | The Cavalier daily Tuesday, March 30, 1971 |  |
1 Million Women
May Carry VD
A San Francisco health official
believes that a million or more women
unknowingly may have gonorrhea.
Dr. Warren Keterer, chief of venereal
disease control for the California Public
Health Department, told a VD seminar in
San Francisco on Sunday that the growth
of infection in California now makes the
use of prophylactic products the only
hope for effective control.
He added that in some urban sections
of California at least 20 per cent of all high
school students will have venereal disease
before they get diplomas. Mr. Keterer also
urged druggists to support proposals to give
instructions in schools on VD prevention.
"This state, along with most other states,
gives virtually no instruction in this most
prevalent disease," he said. "There is nothing in
our textbooks about it, teachers feel insecure in
teaching about VD, and above all, we must
educate people about the plain fact that
prophylaxis (preventive treatment) is now,
literally, our only hope," he continued.
Mr. Keterer was one of the speakers at the
seminar for state pharmaceutical association
executives, held at the beginning of the
American Pharmaceutical Association's 1971
convention.
| The Cavalier daily Tuesday, March 30, 1971 | |