Posted on 05/10/2006 12:14:13 PM PDT by DBeers
Syphilis rates in blacks, women and babies declined significantly between 1999 and 2004 but continued to rise overall, driven by a dramatic jump in infections among gay and bisexual men, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
About 64% of all the new syphilis cases in 2004 were in men who had engaged in homosexual activity, according to the CDC. That group made up 5% of the syphilis cases in 1999.
"Increases in gay and bisexual men are overshadowing the decreases," Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the CDC's National Center for HIV, Sexually Transmitted Disease and Tuberculosis Prevention, said at a national conference on sexually transmitted diseases in Jacksonville, Fla.
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The increase in infections among gay and bisexual men is partly a product of the effectiveness of HIV drugs, said Dr. John Douglas, director of the CDC's Division of STD Prevention.
He said the fear of risky sexual behaviors, which grew in the era of HIV and AIDS, had faded somewhat. Effective drug cocktails, he said, has led many gay men to think of HIV and AIDS as a chronic but manageable disease. The result is that some do not take the proper precautions, such as using a condom.
To try to stem new infections, the CDC plans to work more closely with local health departments and community groups in the gay community.
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The increase in infections among gay and bisexual men is partly a product of the effectiveness of HIV drugs, said Dr. John Douglas, director of the CDC's Division of STD Prevention.
Could someone please tell me what good are these drugs if all they do is keep these typhoid marys alive and infecting new patients? If they didn't practice safe sex when their own life was on the line, what makes anyone think they are going to start now?
Well if the AP story, incorrectly reported I might add, that says Gays are just born that way, why weren't they born with STDs?
Nominee for Stupid Quote of the Year Award.
The Queer Mafia and democrat party demand unrestricted homosexual sex, then expect the taxpayers (Republicans and independents) to foot the astronomical bills for AIDS meds.
Surprised to see this printed. You won't see this politically incorrect stuff in the MSM.
Another fact they won't print is how many communicable diseases come up with illegals. One of the points I have not seen made about the difference from the days of European immigration is how they all used to get checked by doctors before being allowed in at Ellis Island.
Coming up from Mexico and Central America illegally is a lot of illness we don't normally have here.
More tax dollars are needed to combat this.
But let's keep teaching our children what a wonderful thing homosexuality is and that it's wonderful that Johnny has two daddys.
Homosexuals who deliberately contract Aids (there are a number of them, believe it or not), should get absolutely no taxpayer subsidies for their very expensive drug cocktails.
This is beyond nuts.
Now who could believer such a thing?
Gay culture - sort of like a petri dish.
Thanks for throwing in utterly irrelevant Illegal references and verifying that the Hysterical Obsession demands gratuitous interjections into every thread or subject.
Lord knows it can't be the Gay community's fault.
That's one of the silliest objections I've ever heard.
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