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Show VD Cases Increasing In Summit County future, women who receive a pelvic exam and pap smear should ask for a gonorea culture test as well." Pregnancy Pregnant women Chartier told us, who are infected with a veneral disease may be successfully treated during dur-ing the ninth month of their term. The national statistics show 400 babies were born with congenital syphallus in the U.S. last year, four of those cases in Utah. Charier explains that a simple blood test prior to delivery will detect the problem. The nursing director commends com-mends the clinics in the Park City area for their effective routine screening and diligently dili-gently reporting contact names to the Summit County Health Dept. She adds more doctors within Summit County Coun-ty need to be more responsible responsi-ble in reporting the names of infected people as a means to draw the VD epidemic to a close. The Record asked the nursing director if she had a message she would like to get across to the general public and she said "People with VD should not be shocked; face I it, and be treated promptly." The Park City Community Clinic, a non-profit family planning program holds weekly clinics that provide VD screening. For an appointment, ap-pointment, call 649-5989. by Matt Madsen Officials of the Summit County Health Department announced last week a verneral disease epidemic currently exists in Summit County. Fourteen positive case of gonorrea were detected and brought under treatment from January 1 through October, compared to six VD cases reported for the entire year of 1980 and in 1977 11 cases were treated. According to Nancy Chartier Deputy Director and Nursing Supervisor for the Summit County Health Dept., this particular strain of jVD is easily treated and the earlier the infected person goes to a clinic for treatment the better. County can be brought to a halt if: 1) the infected person receives prompt treatment; and 2) reports to the health dept. the names of hisher contacts. Chartier stressed the names of people reported, report-ed, who have come in contact with persons with the disease, dis-ease, will be confidential. Furthermore, she said, "the contact people, will not be told who the initial reporter was; all names are confidential." confiden-tial." "This process is working," she said, "people are being very cooperative and the health dept. expects to have the VD outbreak in Summit County stopped within a week." Two Women Two of the detected cases last week were from two women who were in a local clinic for a routine pelvic examination. It was discovered discov-ered then they were infected with a VD. Chartier said, "if it weren't for the women v getting a routine exam, (Ik)sc women would not have discovered I hey had the disease." The nursing director direc-tor pointed out that in the |