Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Your Moment today would not be so glaring had it appeared anywhere other than the normally sure-footed Economist, but it did and it is. Here ya go:

THE Dutch called it the Spanish disease; Russians the Polish disease; Turks, the Christian disease and Tahitians, the British disease. But syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease (STD), seems more of a Chinese disease these days.

The Chinese disease? [Economist]