Checkout the story here: Rare infection may be risk to gay men in US
The article states: Dutch authorities found that a large number of the men recently infected with LGV had participated in sex parties and unprotected anal intercourse in the year before getting sick.
And, unfortunately: Many also were infected with HIV, the virus that causes Aids.
Yet another reason to discourage homosexuality (behavior), especially in our youth.
Mother Nature and Darwin continue work overtime to removed these maggots.
The thing about this is, If HIV/AIDS didn't phase the sodomites then this won't phase them either. With the new antibiotic resistant "superbug" viruses out there it's only a matter of time until they bring about something devastating enough to take a toll large enough that the CDC orders a quarantine.
How are they going to do that? How do they deside who's a homosexual and who's not? They are playing with Pandora's box.
‘Not a simple answer’ for desert’s syphilis problem
"In the year since health officials warned of a growing syphilis problem here, the alarming but easily curable disease continues to overrun the Coachella Valley.
Despite a year of education and testing efforts, Palm Springs alone has a syphilis rate of 81.8 per 100,000 people in 2003, twice the rate of the nation’s No. 1 city for syphilis, San Francisco.
As of the end of August, 73 cases were reported in Riverside County, compared with 78 during the same period in 2003. In both years, most of the cases were coming from the Coachella Valley.
The disease, health officials say, is being spread in the desert almost exclusively by gay men, many of whom are also HIV-positive.
"We’ve considered it being at epidemic levels since 2002," said Barbara Cole, director of disease control in Riverside County and the lead official on the valley’s syphilis outbreak...
Something happened
Syphilis in the United States was in decline across the board in the 1980s and 1990s. According to the CDC, syphilis occurred mainly among heterosexual blacks in the South and in large cities in the 1990s. The incidence of sexually transmitted diseases declined substantially among gay men as a result of a decrease in risky sexual behavior as fears of HIV and AIDS spread.
Then something happened, at least in gay communities. Syphilis started popping up again. First there was an epidemic in the Seattle area in the late 1990s. Then an outbreak in Southern California.
Today, health officials say there is a syphilis problem in several American cities with substantial gay populations -- San Francisco, New York and Atlanta...
The question is why? There are many theories, but no definitive answers.
One of the most common is that gay men have begun engaging in risky sexual behavior because they’ve grown tired of the safe sex message, or are no longer concerned about AIDS..."