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syphilis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. syphilis rate rose for the seventh straight year in 2007, driven by a continued surge in cases among homo***ual and bi***ual men, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. Since 2000, when the national syphilis rate sank to a low of 2.1 per 100,000 people after a decade of progress in the 1990s, the rate has soared by 76 percent, the CDC reported. Homo***ual and bi***ual men accounted for 64 percent of syphilis cases in 2007, up from about 5 percent in 1999. CDC officials expressed concern not only because the recent increases in this bacterial ***ually transmitted disease follows years of declines, but also because syphilis can elevate a person's risk of being infected with the AIDS virus and the odds of giving it to someone else. They also called rises among women and blacks troubling. The overall national rate of syphilis rose by 12 percent in 2007 from 2006, reaching 3.7 cases per 100,000 people, based on preliminary CDC data released at a meeting in Chicago. The rate for men was 6.4 per 100,000, a 14 percent rise from 2006. The number of syphilis cases nationwide jumped to 11,181 in 2007 from 9,756 in 2006, with men accounting for six times as many cases as women. Rates for men and women had been roughly equivalent a decade ago. Continued... http://www.reuters.com/article/healt...20954820080312 |
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Re: syphilis
"Death" <Death@yourdoor.net> wrote in message news:fWwCj.21854$0M3.3158@newsfe17.lga... > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. syphilis rate rose for the seventh > straight > year in 2007, driven by a continued surge in cases among homo***ual and > bi***ual men, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on > Wednesday. > > Since 2000, when the national syphilis rate sank to a low of 2.1 per > 100,000 people after a decade of progress in the 1990s, the rate has > soared > by 76 percent, the CDC reported. This is a nasty disease, and we certainly do not wish to see a situation happen like before when it was estimated that between 10 and 15 % of Americans were infected by this disease. It got so bad that people had to be tested for it before they could get married. |
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03-17-2008
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Re: syphilis
of Baal@truthonly.com> wrote: > >"Death" <Death@yourdoor.net> wrote in message >news:fWwCj.21854$0M3.3158@newsfe17.lga... >> >> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. syphilis rate rose for the seventh >> straight >> year in 2007, driven by a continued surge in cases among homo***ual and >> bi***ual men, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on >> Wednesday. >> >> Since 2000, when the national syphilis rate sank to a low of 2.1 per >> 100,000 people after a decade of progress in the 1990s, the rate has >> soared >> by 76 percent, the CDC reported. > > >This is a nasty disease, and we certainly do not wish to see a situation >happen like before when it was estimated that between 10 and 15 % of >Americans were infected by this disease. But you do recall, don't you, that during that epidemic most of the infected were immigrants from Australia and New Zealand. Where health care was and to a large degree is today something not affordable by any but the very rich.? > >It got so bad that people had to be tested for it before they could get >married. Of course it was then. as I pointed out, as it is now a minority based problem. And today, when you throw in the down low homo***uals, you got trouble in River City. |
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