The Kiss of Death. In the 1920s a staggering 60,000 people in Britain died each year from syphilis. This final programme reveals the secret history of venereal disease and the moral and medical panic it aroused. Mass infection of the troops even threatened to undermine the Allied war effort until the arrival of penicillin in 1943. Producer Steve Humphries Series editor Joanna Mack
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