How long before they bring back Salversan 606?
Arsenic kills things like this...
Posted on 05/09/2014 3:10:54 PM PDT by NYer
Despite near-total elimination of the sexually transmitted venereal disease syphilis more than a decade ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that rates have made a steep jump over the last eight years.
The new study released Thursday offers a snapshot of the disease’s prevalence across multiple demographics, including gender, race, sexual orientation, age, and geographic region. Where syphilis was once on the brink of eradication in the year 2000, when the rate was a mere 2.1 cases per 100,000, overall prevalence had increased to 5.3 cases per 100,000 people by 2013. Researchers working with the CDC speculate the greatest contributing factor has been the transmission between men who have unprotected sex with other men.
Gail Bolan, director of the CDC's Division of STD Prevention, told Reuters that prevention efforts that have largely worked on heterosexual people have not resonated as well with homosexual populations. “We’ve got to re-evaluate and look at new approaches that we can use to drive these rates down,” she said.
Men made up the largest portion of syphilis patients in 2013, at 91 percent of all primary and secondary cases (a breakdown that refers to the severity of the disease). Over the eight-year study period, rates increased from 5.1 people to 9.8 per 100,000. Women, meanwhile, rose from 0.9 in 2005 to 1.5 in 2008, then back down to 0.9 again by 2013. Overall, the number of reported U.S. syphilis cases nearly doubled, from 8,724 to 16,663.
Syphilis is not always a lethal disease; however, it can lead to severe disabilities such as blindness and stroke. Initially, syphilis is contracted via open sores during vaginal, anal, and oral sex. Owing to its morbid nickname of “the great imitator,” syphilis sores aren’t always severe in the beginning. Many people think nothing of a red bump, which could be a harmless cut or mild irritation. Later, however, the sore develops into splotchy rashes and more familiar symptoms, such as a sore throat or headaches.
Homosexual marriage is absurd. Do we really think that two homosexuals with a combined 1000 sexual partners will settle for just each other?
as many partners as possible is integral to the gay lifestyle. they reject monogamy, the point of being homo is sex anywhere, anytime with anyone.
Couple this post’s concepts with THIS viewpoint:
0bama. California.
“Here’s the word for word quote of the president’s most recent declaration against any and all who might disagree with his Big Government, no questions asked, agenda. They were spoken at a big money, California fundraiser:
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The truth of the matter is, is that the reason that we have not seen Washington address the core concerns of too many working families around the country is that you have a party that has been captive to an ideology, to a theory of economics, that says those folks, they’re on their own and government doesn’t have an appropriate role to play.
And our goal and our task in this midterm has to be to break that grip, that particular view, that particular wrongheaded vision this country has so that we can get back to the business of investing in the American people and investing in America’s future.”
Then consider that those they’re having sex with were probably within the same sampling pool.
Just do the math, 2% percent of the population having lots of sex with the same 2% percent. As soon as *any* disease is injected into that group it’ll spread like wild fire, especially because men having sex with men has the highest rate of transmission (vs other types of sex).
You can’t argue away the mechanics of it all. They can do what they want but if they succeed in forcing the system to allow them to give blood, well, the consequences will be blood on their hands - people should go to jail for allowing it, there’ll be many victims. Maybe this is the discussion we should encourage? ...let the facts be discussed.
It is sort of queer how these things happen.
Is that 9000 gay men, straight, bi?
...thankfully there are checks and balances.
I would think syphilis would be a relatively minor worry among this disease-ridden population.
How long before they bring back Salversan 606?
Arsenic kills things like this...
Something else for the faggots to be proud about.
On a more basic level, they don't want to hear "because you persist in these behaviors and habits, you CAN'T do this" (i.e. donate blood).
To which they reply, "Oh yeah? We can do ANYTHING we want!"
They don't like the idea of an absolute line being drawn.
The respondents were Australian men who self-identified as gay.
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