Vancouver facing worst outbreak of syphilis in the developed world

Yahoo News ^ | Wed Dec 24, 2:53 AM ET | Staff

[glorgau]

This is how the "liberal" lifestyle is faring in Canada.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Some 254 new cases have been diagnosed locally this year authorities said early this week -- more than the total for North America in two decades"

Is that true? I had no idea syphillis had become so rare. Fewer than 250 North American cases in 20 years?

[FormerACLUmember]

With all that great "free" healthcare in Canada, after SARS and syphilis we will see a resurgance of the Black Plague and leprosy!!

[Texas Eagle]

A Canuck goes to the drugstore and buys a box of condoms.

Cashier: "That'll be five dollars plus tax."

Canuck: "Oh. Is that how you keep these things on?"

[CWOJackson]

Not culturally enlightened Vancouver?

Well, they put in government funded safe places to shoot up drugs. A nurse supervised the self administration of the dope to make sure the junkie is doing is safely and cleanly, then they take the doper to a chill out room for their comfort and safety.

Are they going to open government sponsored sex houses now?

[Texas Eagle]

The Internet has also made it easy for people to meet and have anonymous sex with several partners, Blatherwick said.

Uhhhhh......note to myself. Never buy a used computer from a Canadian.

[KneelBeforeZod]

vancouver is a dump under the surface. and near the surface too. my old roommate has an apt there because he travels there to work about 50% of his office time.

check out travel discussion boards and see how many people get mugged/car-burglarized

[HardStarboard]

>>>Are they going to open government sponsored sex houses now? <<<

I believe that prostitution is still legal in Vancouver. I know it was a few years back.

Several years ago (15+), a Canadian friend told me to meet him at a particular table in an alcove at the front end of the bar in the Granville Hotel. I got there and sat nursing a beer. Several good looking things came up to me and tried to engage me in conversation. When they found out I was waiting for a friend they seemed to loose interest!

My friend later told me, laughing uncontrollably, that that booth was known as the place to sit if you wanted to find a cute young thing looking to turn a trick. I was mortified that it wasn't my good looks turning on all those hotties.

[BrooklynGOP]

Uhhhhh......note to myself. Never buy a used computer condom from a Canadian.

[Texas Eagle]

Apparently there's no such thing as a used condom in Canadia.

Besides, I was cracking wise about Canucks engaging in anonymous sex with people they meet on the internet and.....oh, never mind.

[aristeides]

"It's the classic tale of Tudor kings going crazy from syphilis," said Blatherwick.

There were only three Tudor kings (in addition to two queens.) Edward died at too young an age, I think, for it to be possible that he went mad from syphilis. I've never heard of either Henry VII or Henry VIII having the disease, but I suppose it might explain some of Henry VIII's behavior later in life.

[bitcon]

It's not legal in Vancouver and can't tell you when it ever was if ever. It's just very prevalent.

[wiseone]

The U.S. Time man of the year is the American soldier. While Canada's is the homosexual sodomite!.


sodomites...we're Canada's sweethearts

Canada's gay newlyweds are making news ... again Time honours their revolution It's `an amazing year for us'

ASHANTE INFANTRY STAFF REPORTER

It may not have been the wedding of the century, but Michael Leshner and Michael Stark's nuptials are being credited with sparking a cultural revolution.

And now the newlyweds, the first gay couple to receive a legal marriage licence in Ontario, have been chosen as Time magazine's 2003 Canadian Newsmaker of the Year.

"I think it just tops off what's been an amazing year for us," Stark said yesterday. "I call 2003 the Year of the Michaels."
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2003/12/22/294487.html

[bitcon]

Bingo. That doesn't even include the panahndlers that'll harrass you for money. There are some on city council that want to make a bylaw to stop it but most of the council is the "it's not their fault" crowd.

[Swordmaker]

"Some 254 new cases have been diagnosed locally this year authorities said early this week -- more than the total for North America in two decades"

Is that true? I had no idea syphillis had become so rare. Fewer than 250 North American cases in 20 years?

This is bogus data! A cursory search of the internet will provide you with data from the CDC:

"In the United States, health officials reported over 32,000 cases of syphilis in 2002, including 6,862 cases of primary and secondary (P&S) syphilis. In 2002, half of all P&S syphilis cases were reported from 16 counties and 1 city; and most P&S syphilis cases occurred in persons 20 to 39 years of age. The incidence of infectious syphilis was highest in women 20 to 24 years of age and in men 35 to 39 years of age. Reported cases of congenital syphilis in newborns decreased from 2001 to 2002, with 492 new cases reported in 2001 compared to 412 cases in 2002.

Between 2001 and 2002, the number of reported P & S syphilis cases increased 12.4 percent. Rates in women continued to decrease, and overall, the rate in men was 3.5 times that in women. This, in conjunction with reports of syphilis outbreaks in men who have sex with men (MSM), suggests that rates of syphilis in MSM are increasing.

Just another example of the elitie media equalling the idiot, ignorant media!

[CyberCowboy777]

So much for the Canadian Utopia.

Disease

Poverty

Failing health care system

moral decay

[CholeraJoe]

Be sure to wrap that rascal, Arghie.

[walford]

...Our outbreak is primarily among sex trade workers now, but we're worried about it jumping to the gay community and beyond and creating a bigger epidemic...

Uhh... I guess promoting monogamy or abstinence is out of the question, wouldnt' want to impose values on anyone, woulde we? Of course this promiscuity is a non-value being imposed -- hmmm?

'sex trade worker'?! Theyr'e prostitutes, babe. Sheesh!

[Tax-chick]

Edward died either from tuberculosis, or from the treatment for tuberculosis. The most plausible possibility for syphilis is Henry VIII, but he had such an array of other health conditions that it's hard to blame just one for his mental and physical problems.

Maybe the author is thinking of the Stuarts; some of them were pretty batty.

[RobbyS]

It might explain Henry's poor health, his wives' miscarriages, and the puny health and early deaths of all his surviving children, except for Elizabeth. The fact that she lived so long a life suggests that maybe the charge that Henry was not her father has some substance. Of course there was that flaming red Tudor hair!