shocking secrets spinoff

someone recently shared some old family gossip with me... about a family member getting an STD (this time i'm not talking about save the dates or short term disability lol) back in the 70s or 80s (i don't recall this detail).

seems that at the time, the doctor had to report it to the authorities, and the authorities quarantined her.

is there a way to look this information up?

i know present-day HIPPA wouldn't allow it, but would there be some old record of something like this happening?

it took place out here, southern california.

how would i start looking into it?

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No advice as to how to search but curious... why would/do you want to know this information?

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Strange thing to want to investigate.

And I would hope this kind of information would not be publicly available.

shocking secrets spinoff

I don't know but I don't think this is anything that anyone except the party involved should be interested in. Seems very intrusive to want to research it.

shocking secrets spinoff

I hope this info isn't available. So not anyone's business or to gossip about

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I was curious if people were actually quarantined in the USA for an STD. Found this interesting info on our history:

Venereal disease in the United States (1917)

With World War I raging, the U.S. military became concerned about the number of young men ineligible for the draft because of sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis and gonorrhea. They also noticed an uptick in "camp girls," prostitutes and other women hanging around U.S. training grounds and military recruitment centers. A federal order allowed for the incarceration of prostitutes and camp girls until they were deemed STD-free via mandatory testing. Harvard University medical historian Allan Brandt estimates at least 30,000 women were picked up in raids. "There's no evidence that this impacted the rates of transmission," he says. "But there was this notion that these women constituted a serious threat to our success in the war." He notes that while the women were being rounded up and held in prison, often long after they'd tested negative, the Army was issuing condoms to soldiers shipping off to France.

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Message edited 7/10/2018 11:06:34 PM.