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Is The Black Clap Real?

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Robin Burden answered
Nope, it's just an urban legend - although the rumor is partly based on a real-life disease, with gonorrhea being the most likely suspect.

What is the black clap?
When people talk about the 'black clap', they're often referring to an incurable disease that causes sufferers to break out in infectious sores and boils.

Although modern medicine has yet to encounter such a disease, the myth of the black clap is probably centered around the venereal diseases with which GI's serving in the Korean and Vietnam wars returned to the United States.

The most likely explanation is that these infected soldiers were actually suffering from the sexually-transmitted disease we know as gonorrhea.

Before GI's went back home, they were often injected with several high doses of antibiotic to combat any STD's they'd picked up from their time in service. Unfortunately, exposing the virus to several rounds of antibiotics meant that it eventually mutated and become immune to medication.

When soldiers returned and began spreading the disease, doctors (and the general public) were taken aback by the resilience of the viral strain, and this is most likely to be where the idea of the 'black clap' originated.
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Krishneal Kellogs
This is not a legend, the black clap was a real disease that vietnamese prostitutes were paid to give to american soldiers. Once the soldier contracted the disease they had 3days to make a decision. that decision was either suicide or operation, in which they would eventually be deported to foreign land never to return home again. This was their choice based on the humiliation of returning home with no genitals. I can tell you many more details about this disease first first hand experience, but i'm also not out to prove anything. The urban legend folks don't know $hit
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Anonymous answered
No, it's an urban legend, thank God! We already have enough sexually-transmitted diseases running amok as it is!

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