弗朗茨·夏伯特
Franz Schubert，
(1797-1828)，
奧地利作曲家
Austrian composer
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848),
義大利作曲家
Italian composer
Robert Schumann (1810-1856), 德國作曲家
German composer
莫泊桑 Guy de Maupassant,
(1850-1893),
法國短篇小說家
French writer
A
Lesson in Epidemiology 2
For all its satirical elements, Voltaire’s lesson about the spread of syphilis tells the deeper historical truth: A sexually transmitted disease never restricts itself to a particular sexual minority or to any subgroup of the population.
The realities of human sexual behavior are and always have been such
that STDs respect neither national borders nor class barriers. They
inevitably affect ever more men and women in a steadily growing number
of countries. Apparently, this fact was well known to Voltaire’s
readers.
Unfortunately, because of prudery and general historical ignorance,
these epidemiological basics had been widely forgotten when AIDS made
its appearance in the 1980’s. Many people then erroneously
believed that it was simply a “gay disease” that would kill
only homosexuals and never reach anyone else.
