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Toronto syphilis rates soar 800 percent
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| February 16, 2004
| Staff
Posted on 02/16/2004 12:02:53 PM PST by Loyalist
The rate of syphilis infection has soared 800 percent in the past two years, prompting Toronto health officials to call for education and prevention funding.
Nearly 280 Torontonians tested positive for syphilis in 2003, up nearly 45 percent from 195 in 2002, the Toronto Sun said Monday, quoting a report to be presented next week to Toronto's health board. Those numbers are up from just 30 cases a year from 1997-2001.
Nearly three-quarters of the cases were among men who have gay, unprotected sex, the report said.
The city tried to fight the rise last spring with a month-long poster campaign. The 1970s-themed ads featured attractive men in disco gear with the slogan Look what's back.
Toronto's Hassle-Free Sexually Transmitted Disease clinic reported the campaign spurred more people to get tested -- nearly 3,400 people in 2003, compared to 250 the year before.
While alarming in the city, the figures are largely representative of a trend across North America and Europe, the newspaper said.
Untreated with antibiotics, syphilis can lead to blindness, insanity and death.
TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aids; blindness; canada; condoms; epidemic; gaygenda; grids; hedonists; hiv; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; insanity; libertines; prisoners; publichealth; sexuallytransmitted; syphilis; toronto; unprotectedsex; vd
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To: EdReform; little jeremiah
Thanks for the recent pings.
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posted on
02/16/2004 12:35:43 PM PST
by
scripter
(Thousands have left the homosexual lifestyle)
To: theDentist
YOu stole my line
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posted on
02/16/2004 12:36:08 PM PST
by
keysguy
To: keysguy
Naw. I merely stole your opportunity.
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posted on
02/16/2004 12:36:48 PM PST
by
theDentist
(Boston: So much Liberty, you can buy a Politician already owned by someone else.)
To: Loyalist
Sodom and Gomorrah
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posted on
02/16/2004 12:39:16 PM PST
by
traumer
(Even paranoids have enemies)
To: Loyalist
What do you expect from a bunc of Canuk-leheads??!!
This is the same group that is telling us all now to endorse the radical homosexual lifestyle! Show me any other demographic group that has syphilis tates like this!
Gawd!!!
To: TheBigB
LOL!!
To: Loyalist
"Toronto syphilis rates soar 800 percent"....
and Health Canada wants to talk with Triumph the Insult Dog.
To: Loyalist
If you really want to end AIDS and other life-taking STDs, then quarantine and reimpose and enforce sodomy laws.
Otherwise, no point in wasting money on half-measures.
To: TheBigB
Not worth the trouble. Let nature and "natural selection" take it's course
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posted on
02/16/2004 12:47:02 PM PST
by
TLI
(...........ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA..........)
To: Loyalist
And these clowns are worried about Connan O'Brian giving them a bad image.
So9
To: Loyalist
Sounds like Crazy Mary has been to their town too.
To: Loyalist
I didn't know Bill or Hillary had ever been to Toronto...
To: Loyalist
Untreated with antibiotics, homosexuality can lead to blindness, insanity and death.
To: Loyalist
Toronto syphilis rates soar 800 percent...See what happens when you lard your country up with camel humpers and various other muslim-types?
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posted on
02/16/2004 1:16:40 PM PST
by
JesseHousman
(Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal)
To: Loyalist; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; ...
They should try abstinence, it works.
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posted on
02/16/2004 1:19:34 PM PST
by
Coleus
(Vote for Bush and Traditional Marriage; http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4205947/)
To: Loyalist
Untreated with antibiotics, syphilis can lead to blindness, insanity and death.
And makes transmission of HIV much more efficient thanks to the open chancres.
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posted on
02/16/2004 1:20:18 PM PST
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: scripter
They'll never promote the only proven preventive remedy: Trinoasatol!
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posted on
02/16/2004 1:24:39 PM PST
by
Loyalist
(Tony Clement for Leader: Conservative Party of Canada!)
To: Loyalist
CANADA SHOULD CHANGE ITS NAME TO VD!
To: Loyalist
Well, this should make for an entertaining episode of South Park, at the very least.
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posted on
02/16/2004 1:53:12 PM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: *Homosexual Agenda; EdReform; scripter; GrandMoM; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; saradippity; ...
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
Hmm, syphilis leads to blindness, insanity and death.
Will anyone notice if they have it? I guess the eyesight going would clue them in.
Anyone want on? or off? this list - ping me!
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posted on
02/16/2004 3:07:25 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(everyone is entitled to their opinion, but everyone isn't entitled to be right.)
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