Posted on 06/08/2016 6:21:07 AM PDT by reaganaut1
To win the fight against syphilis, we need to increase screening and detection among high-risk individuals from once a year to every three months.
That's one of the recommendations announced today by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent volunteer panel of experts that provides input about the effectiveness of specific preventive care services. The report appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The increase in screenings should focus on the groups at highest risk -- HIV-positive men, men who have sex with men, and men ages 20 to 29 -- and safe sex practices, specifically the use of condoms, should be emphasized.
It's a new strategy in a war America is currently losing. Syphilis increased 15% between 2013 and 2014, to almost 20,000 cases.
It was the dawn of a new century, and America was close to defeating syphilis, one of its most deadly sexually transmitted diseases. In 2000, there were only four cases of syphilis for every 100,000 people in the United States, and outbreaks were confined to a limited number of geographic areas and mostly persons of color. Then and now, black people are disproportionately affected in the United States.
Giddy with hope, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a national plan to eliminate the STD completely.
"There is currently a narrow window of opportunity to eliminate this disease while cases are still on the decline," the CDC said in a 1999 executive summary of the plan. "Eliminating syphilis in the United States would be a landmark achievement."
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Or,better still,just obey the Sixth Commandment.It worked quite well until about 40 years ago.But then the Commandments are *so* outdated.All those "thou shalt nots" are so annoying.
Don’t whore around and you won’t get syphilis!
It’s worked for me for the last 53 years!
Didn’t these PC idiots ban mandatory reporting of HIV?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
As we continue to “treat” these diseases for which we (collectively) REFUSE to address the cause, these diseases learn how to out-maneuver the treatment. Expect more and more drug-resistant varieties to develop and homosexual continue to spit in the face of Nature and Nature’s God.
How about just keeping your drawers on?
Relying on “increased screen” to somehow combat the Syphilis problem is like recommending you drive your car using only the rear view mirror for guidance.
Glad to see you see posting. Go ‘Tops!
It’s lucky that women don’t get syphilis. That means they don’t need mandatory screening.
Unlike HIV, syphilis is easily transmitted by normal intercourse between men and women. The high prevalence among homosexuals is more indicative of promiscuity than sodomy.
Although - I wonder now why the Tuskegee study followed men rather than women. Women are more likely to take an interest in their own health, comply with medical personnel, and less likely to move and leave the study area. 25% of men in the study area tested positive for syphilis exposure - what about the women?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
“No. The answer is to stand back and let the homos kill themselves off with their diseases.”
The problem with that is the queers invent new kinds of rot quicker than they die off. It costs about $100,000,00 a year to treat of the Mongolian BF’ers that get AIDS, and now they live for many YEARS!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
The queers reign supreme when it comes to syphilis and a dozen other diseases transmitted by mouth to anus and various other gay methods. This is a game where faggots definitely hold first place. What a great promotional for our kids.
Sort of a make room for Achmed program...
How the hell do you know I'm losing the fight against syphilis?!?
Stop screwing around
And stop STD’s
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