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How is the drug 'salvarson' effective against syphilis and sleeping sickness? How is it harmful for humans?
Arsphenamine, also known as Salvarsan and compound 606, is a drug that was introduced at the beginning of the 1910s as the first effective treatment for syphilis, and was also used to treat trypanosomiasis. It is an organoarsenic molecule, and was the first modern chemotherapeutic agent. It is given as injection.
 The drug contains arsenic which is  a carcinogen ,it is said so.


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