Every hour a baby is born in China with syphilis, it is the world's fastest-growing epidemic of the disease and is fueled by men with new money from the nation's booming economy.
Syphilis was nearly eradicated in China in the 1960s after a propaganda blitz to shut down brothels which included mass screening and treatment of prostitutes. But as free-market reforms thrust the nation's economy into high gear in the 1980s, the disease rebounded at an unprecedented rate.
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