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You make me sick!
Report for November 29, 2003
Sexually transmitted diseases
are on the rise among sodomites. According to the Federal Center for
Disease Control, homophobia is part of the problem! That leads us to ask,
What do the feds prescribe to control or eliminate that health risk? Stay
tuned and find out the hard way if Christians don't get serious about
taking an uncompromised, open stand against the lies of New Sodom and its
friends.
Syphilis on the Rise
Family News in Focus, November 24, 2003
by Terry Phillips, correspondent
Incidence of the sexually transmitted disease is up, mostly affecting
homosexual men.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released
figures showing that, for a second straight year, syphilis is on the
increase in major U.S. cities. Those most affected are homosexual men.
The alarming increases in syphilis cases seem to be interconnected with
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to Dr. John Douglas, director
of the CDC's Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Prevention.
"(In New York City) HIV-positive gay men comprised 61 percent of
syphilis cases in 2002 compared to 22 (percent) in 1999," Douglas
said, adding that the increase was the highest in the nation.
But Dr. Susan Blank, a spokeswoman for the New York State Department of
Health, said the concern goes far beyond syphilis.
"The concern for us is that this syphilis outbreak is going to be
heralding in the next couple of years increases in HIV," she said.
"One of the important pieces of the puzzle here is that there are
thousands of people who are HIV-infected, who don't even know it."
A key factor in the increase is the homosexual lifestyle itself, according
to Dr. Ronald Valdeserri, deputy director of the CDC's National Center for
HIV, STD and TB Prevention.
"Many gay and bisexual men are also dealing with a range of
interconnected challenges, including substance abuse, depression,
homophobia and sometimes partner violence," Valdeserri said.
The CDC has launched awareness campaigns in cities like San Francisco,
where the syphilis rate more than doubled between 2001 and 2002; New York,
Detroit, Los Angeles and Chicago -- which were all hard-hit.
There are a couple of pieces of good news. Health campaigns have turned
around the syphilis rate among blacks, which health experts say was once
affected the most. And penicillin is still virtually a miracle drug when
it comes to syphilis treatment.
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