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CDC Official: We’re Seeing ‘Epidemic of Syphilis’ Among Gay Men
CNS ^ | April 23, 2015 | Penny Starr

Posted on 04/25/2015 11:38:15 AM PDT by xzins

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official cited an “epidemic” of syphilis among homosexual men during an event Thursday by a lobbying group pushing for an increase in federal funding for sexually transmitted disease prevention from $157 million to $212 million. “We’re also seeing what we are calling pretty much an epidemic of syphilis among men who have sex with men – that really started in the early – 2000, 2002, but we’ve seen a dramatic increase since 2008,” Dr. Gail Bolan, director of CDC’s Division of STD Prevention, said at a briefing by the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD).

“We actually had some areas of the country that hadn’t seen a case of syphilis back to the late ‘90s and early 2000’s, and we thought we had a chance to eliminate this infection but we’re now challenged with this current epidemic,” Bolan said.

That epidemic is also spreading to the larger population, Bolan said, citing data that “reflects men who have sex with both men and women and that clearly has been slowly increasing since 2008.”

In California, Bolan said, there has been an increase in cases of ocular syphilis, which infects the eyes and can cause blindness.

“And again the trend is following our trend of syphilis – they’re mainly in HIV-infected MSM,” Boland said of the ocular syphilis. “A few cases have occurred, though, in HIV negative MSM and heterosexuals.”

Bolan spoke about the increasing threat of gonorrhea. In 2013, the CDC released the report, “Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States,” which named gonorrhea as one of the Top Three “urgent threats” in the country.

“We’re very concerned about the threat of untreatable gonorrhea,” Bolan said. “Gonorrhea has been determined by the threat report at CDC to be one of the top three urgent threats in this country.

“We are down to the last antibiotic – class of antibiotic -- available to treat this organism and this organism has traditionally outsmarted us with every drug we’ve put at it,” Bolan said.

Bolan also said there is a rise in the spread of Shigella, a diarrhea that can be caused by “exposure to feces through sexual contact.” Both the CDC and its European counterpart have reported the spread of Shigella among MSM.

A handout distributed at the event, giving the reasoning for an increase in funding for CDC funding for fiscal year 2016 states that the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention and state and local health departments across the country “need additional federal resources to reverse the alarming and costly trends of STDs.”

“In fiscal year 2016 please support an increase of $54.7 million to ensure those on the front lines of STD prevention have funding to prepare for the emerging threat of drug-resistant gonorrhea, respond to the rising rates of syphilis, and other outbreaks,” the handout states.

A press release announcing NCSD’s annual congressional briefing promotes the use of condoms.

“In October of last year, NCSD launched the campaign “Condoms (STILL) Work!” to raise a clarion call about the lack of focus on condoms as the best method of preventing all STDs for sexually active people,” the press release states.

Nowhere in the materials handed out or in the comments made by Bolan or NCSD’s Executive Director Bill Smith was there mention of abstinence or monogamous relationships. On the NCSD’s website, abstinence is only mentioned in several posts on sex education.

Abstinence is also mentioned in a March 2014 announcement that “NCSD signed onto three separate coalition letters regarding funding for adolescent sexual health programs, funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and funding for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).”

Among other requests, the first of the three letters asked that federal funding for the Competitive Abstinence Education grant program “be eliminated.”

"Abstaining from sexual activity is the best way an individual can prevent against STDs--- that is a fact and is also part of NCSD’s advocacy," Stephanie Arnold Pang, NCSD director of policy and communications, told CNSNews.com. "We also know that reducing an individual’s number of sex partners also reduces your risk of STDs.

"NCSD is not opposed to abstinence, but we do have concerns about abstinence-only messaging and how it prepares individuals for a future of healthy sexual activity," Pang said. "We believe in providing information and tools to all individuals to ensure they are able to make the best decisions about their sexual activity in order to stay healthy and prevent STDs."


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buttpirates; disease; fdrq; gays; homosexualagenda; homosexualmarriage; moralabsolutes; outbreak; riskybehavior; rumprangers; stds; syphilis; turdburglars; unnatural
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To: biggredd1

“This must be the reason why soetoro hussein is losing weight.”

I guess you saw that article in Yahoo news also.


41 posted on 04/25/2015 12:40:01 PM PDT by Polynikes (What would Walt Kowalski do. In the meantime "GET OFF MY LAWN")
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To: xzins
Maybe the CDC should consult ISIS in regard to gays. /s

two gay men are stoned to death

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3052563/A-hug-mercy-executioner-stones-two-men-death-gay-Astonishing-scenes-Syria-ISIS-murderers-stage-kindness-cameras-brutal-killing.html

42 posted on 04/25/2015 12:43:29 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: xzins

Reminds me of the joke from the 80s.

Gay guy comes out of the doctor’s office going, “WOO HOO, It’s Syphilis!”


43 posted on 04/25/2015 12:45:00 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: xzins
Duh! But at least we have commercials such as this healthy penis ad to protect and inform the men who have sex with men types.

John Stewart has his own commentary, but that neo Commie does not mention the ad is oriented toward homosexuals

The Trayvon Martin Lied

44 posted on 04/25/2015 12:59:23 PM PDT by Stepan12 (Our present appeasementof Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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To: xzins

Yes, this is because as we all know, gay men are so terribly interested in getting married and living a decent life.


45 posted on 04/25/2015 1:01:40 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: biggredd1
Tertiary syphilis would certainly explain his poor judgment and aberrant behavior.
46 posted on 04/25/2015 1:02:36 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: VideoDoctor

I’m waiting for the MSM to try to make a comparison between this and the stance “love the sinner, hate the sin”.


47 posted on 04/25/2015 1:07:51 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: xzins

The Piper demands payment.

48 posted on 04/25/2015 1:13:38 PM PDT by JPG (Lefty reporters doing battle with Sen. Cruz will continue to be chewed-up and spit-out.)
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To: xzins

Ah, the happiness of being, “gay”.


49 posted on 04/25/2015 1:14:55 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Frederick Douglass)
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To: xzins

A shame.

No, really.


50 posted on 04/25/2015 1:20:20 PM PDT by moovova
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To: VanShuyten

Tertiary syphilis so ravaged the brain of Al Capone that he was released from Alcatraz early, having been deemed no longer a threat to society. He could no longer organize a crime.

Confused, he spent his declining years at his Florida mansion daily casting a fishing line into his swimming pool.


51 posted on 04/25/2015 1:21:15 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease.")
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To: xzins


52 posted on 04/25/2015 1:22:20 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough...the Low Information President Obola (LIPO) goes golfing)
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To: elcid1970

I didn’t know that about Capone. At my house he’d catch my pool liner and not be my favorite person. :>)


53 posted on 04/25/2015 1:23:04 PM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

This only adds to the scorn I have for the homo lifestyle. It is a lifestyle of promiscuous sex.

What are they really doing? Everything they are doing is a counterfeiting of the man-woman experience. It is like some who buy those $6000 Real Dolls. Is there real fulfillment with a Real Doll? It is counterfeit, just like those who want sexual reassignment surgery. All of it is an effort to reproduce the real thing. In fact it denies them the real deal at the heart of it all: the opportunity to reproduce and partner with another person of the opposite sex; the product of their natural life. They deny themselves the fulfillment as designed by nature of the emotional relationship with the opposite sex. This denial takes them out of the gene pool (unless they donate their gametes for in vitro fertilization), into an artificial life as artificial as the Real Doll.

One must ask, why would one choose to cut themselves off from the full experience of ones humanity and be left with an artificial substitute? Does promiscuous sex make a satisfying substitute. I say it is a path to the Darwin Award where the despair is more than some can take.


54 posted on 04/25/2015 1:27:45 PM PDT by jonrick46 (America's real drug problem: other people's money (the Commutist's opium addiction).)
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To: DungeonMaster
Yes tertiary syphilis causes the brain to look like swiss cheese. Explains so much about liberals today doesn't it!
55 posted on 04/25/2015 1:29:32 PM PDT by nclaurel
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To: xzins
filthy disease ridden queers...
56 posted on 04/25/2015 1:31:50 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: xzins

Not to be cynical, but have you ever noticed how these announcements of calamitous impending catastrophes by the CDC and other troughers are invariably accompanied demands for huge funding increases?


57 posted on 04/25/2015 1:36:12 PM PDT by Spartan79 (I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. Jefferson)
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To: xzins

Wish I could say I care.


58 posted on 04/25/2015 1:36:44 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Great - now they’ll all go on disability.


59 posted on 04/25/2015 1:37:52 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Spartan79

I thought that too. You know it’s not because they’e going to demand that the people spreading the diseases be accountable for their own behavior.


60 posted on 04/25/2015 1:45:03 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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