On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:19:07 GMT, "RamRod Sword of Baal" <Ramrod sword
of Baal@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>"Death" <Death@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:fWwCj.21854$0M3.3158@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> WA****NGTON (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 re****ted.
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>
>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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