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Facebook 'Linked to Rise in Syphilis'
The Telegraph ^ | 24 Mar 2010

Posted on 03/24/2010 1:10:27 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Edited on 03/24/2010 1:11:29 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Facebook has been linked to a resurgence in the sexually-transmitted disease syphilis, according to health experts.

The virus has increased fourfold in Sunderland, Durham and Teesside, the areas of Britain where Facebook is most popular, because it has given people a new way to meet multiple partners for casual sexual encounters.


(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: facebook; socialnetworking; syphilis
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To: Gator113

Three ‘conditions’ in universal health care that will get you sent to the back of the line...
Smoking
Obesity
and STDs.


21 posted on 03/24/2010 6:07:37 AM PDT by griswold3 (You think health care is expensive now? Just wait till it's FREE!)
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To: Irenic

LOL! But I was gender neutral, wasn’t I? I “counseled” all. I didn’t just pick on one.


22 posted on 03/24/2010 6:52:47 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: nickcarraway

Problem solved.

23 posted on 03/24/2010 7:21:52 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: nickcarraway

Darwin thining the herd and saving health care dollars and carbon emissions for the socialists.


24 posted on 03/24/2010 12:50:04 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: martin_fierro

25 posted on 03/24/2010 12:52:34 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: nickcarraway

The virus has increased fourfold

A very knowledgeable reporter, here. Syph is not a virus, it’s a bacterium. well, a spirochete, which is still not a virus.


26 posted on 03/25/2010 7:55:10 AM PDT by Ender Wiggin
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