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Syphilis On The Rise Among Homosexuals
Greenwich Time ^ | 5/10/05 | Michael Dinan

Posted on 05/11/2005 6:01:49 AM PDT by NRA1995

More and more gay men in Connecticut are contracting syphilis, a life-threatening sexually transmitted disease, according to new statistics from the state Department of Public Health.

Forty-five new cases of primary and secondary syphilis in Connecticut residents were reported to the state in 2004 -- more than triple the number of cases reported just four years ago, and 50 percent more than last year. Of those 45 new cases, 34 were gay men, including 12 who live in lower Fairfield County.

The disease -- an epidemic a decade ago among poor blacks in Connecticut's larger cities -- is spreading quickly among gay suburban men because they're having unprotected sex, said Heidi Jenkins, director of the state health department's STD control program.

Health officials who interviewed most of the people who tested positive for syphilis last year found that some gay men live dangerously, Jenkins said. Despite efforts to promote the use of condoms, some gay men have unprotected sex with multiple partners they meet at Manhattan parties and bars, a popular bathhouse in Providence, R.I., and through Internet chat rooms, she said. Also, increasing numbers of gay men are smoking or injecting crystal methamphetamine, a highly addictive drug that spurs "high-risk" behavior such as unprotected sex, Jenkins said. Others say unprotected sex is increasing because some gay men no longer believe AIDS can kill them prematurely.

"It's a great concern to us," Jenkins said. "What we're seeing with these cases are men with a lot of partners."

(Excerpt) Read more at greenwichtime.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: byebyepoofters; disease; dontputthatthere; homosexual; homosexualagenda; nasty; promiscuity; std; unprotectedsex
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1 posted on 05/11/2005 6:01:50 AM PDT by NRA1995
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To: NRA1995

The deathstyle marches on.


2 posted on 05/11/2005 6:03:08 AM PDT by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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To: NRA1995

Syphillis and the clap????? ANTIBIOTICS!


3 posted on 05/11/2005 6:05:37 AM PDT by Vaquero ('I'm a Red Stater, trapped in the body of a Blue State')
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To: NRA1995

STD. The gift that keeps on giving.


4 posted on 05/11/2005 6:06:00 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: NRA1995

They should start protesting against the Bush administration for not funding the cure for syphalis more aggressively.

/sarcasm


5 posted on 05/11/2005 6:08:35 AM PDT by Paloma_55
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To: FormerLib

Those toilet seats will get you every time


6 posted on 05/11/2005 6:09:19 AM PDT by RogerRabbit
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To: NRA1995
"It's a great concern to us," Jenkins said.

It should be, lady. It's keeping you in a job.

7 posted on 05/11/2005 6:11:09 AM PDT by kahoutek
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To: NRA1995
Playing in feces, leads to more disease??

Who Knew?!

8 posted on 05/11/2005 6:12:42 AM PDT by bikepacker67
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To: NRA1995

"....some gay men live dangerously...."

Seems to me the whole attraction about homosexuality is that it's living dangerously. The more I see these stories, the more I am for quarantining all of them because they DO pose a health menace.


9 posted on 05/11/2005 6:14:56 AM PDT by NRA1995 (John Edwards: "Mah daddy worked in a MEEL")
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To: NRA1995

Well, Civil Unions were just approved in CT......


10 posted on 05/11/2005 6:15:30 AM PDT by Pondman88
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To: NRA1995

And the fudgepackers still try to insist that we accept their debauched lifestyles as 'normal' and 'mainstream'. Sheesh!


11 posted on 05/11/2005 6:17:53 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer
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To: NRA1995

This from a state that makes everything in sight into an epidemic. They play with the statistics to justify new departments. The world's gonna end and we gotta spend more of your tax money to save you.

New phrase of the week:

I'm from the government and I'm here to help.


12 posted on 05/11/2005 6:22:33 AM PDT by George from New England
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To: George from New England

" This from a state that makes everything in sight into an epidemic. "

I'm ashamed to admit I am a native of the once great state of CT , now commonly known as the Peoples Republic of CT ...


13 posted on 05/11/2005 6:29:01 AM PDT by sushiman
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To: NRA1995
Romand CH 1:

26: For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural,

27: and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.

14 posted on 05/11/2005 6:30:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember, Jimmy Carter can still run for another term as President..........)
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To: NRA1995

Does this mean we should dump the other half of the federal health research funding into Siphilis now?


15 posted on 05/11/2005 6:35:49 AM PDT by The Duke
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To: sushiman

The sad thing is that we have a Republican Governor rolling over on everything the Dems/Liberals want.

Its a disease that has inficted the whole Northeast--even NH (though not as bad).


16 posted on 05/11/2005 6:35:53 AM PDT by Pondman88
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To: NRA1995
I thought Joyclyn Elders said homosexuality was healthy and normal. This syphilis thing has to be a statistical fluke, like HIV.

(steely)

17 posted on 05/11/2005 7:18:50 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Fortunately, the Bill of Rights doesn't include the word 'is'.)
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To: Steely Tom

I don't think Ms. Elders was "healthy and normal."


18 posted on 05/11/2005 7:28:27 AM PDT by NRA1995 (John Edwards: "Mah daddy worked in a MEEL")
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To: NRA1995

I still laugh at that silly-looking suit she always wore (every chooooowwww should be a planned and wanted choooowwww.....we can make safer guns.....we can make safer bullets....).


19 posted on 05/11/2005 7:29:41 AM PDT by NRA1995 (John Edwards: "Mah daddy worked in a MEEL")
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To: Steely Tom

Wonder if getting syph is a cool among gays as getting AIDS?


20 posted on 05/11/2005 7:30:22 AM PDT by bonfire (dwindler)
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