Posted on 02/23/2012 8:37:42 PM PST by Beowulf9
Syphilis cases are up in gay men, according to the Delaware Department of Public Health.
76 cases of syphilis were reported to the Health Department last year. Nearly all of them were diagnosed among gay men, and the majority of those cases were in New Castle County. The department says this may be part of a rising trend in syphilis among gay men throughout the country, as increases in cases have been reported in cities such as New York, Miami, San Francisco and Chicago.
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that’s transmitted from contact with an infected person. The disease can go for years without showing any symptoms, and can lead to neurological and cardiovascular problems, among others. The Health Department says that safer sex practices and STD testing play a major role in preventing and treating the disease. The department says syphilis can be treated with just a single shot of penicillin.
Being gay is the single most unhealthful decision that a male can make (other than drinking gasoline). As I understand it, it shortens your life expectancy more than smoking and you are likely to be sick for a much greater proportion of your life.
If more parents would explain that to their kids (particularly boys), we might not have such a problem.
Be better and easier on the country's medical system if the queers would jut put a gun to each other's heads and be done, but this will work long term.
How about the one where two Gays are walking past a funeral home and one says to the other, would you like to stop in for a cold one.
We have to pay a premium on insurance if we want to smoke. What are the chances being gay will get the same treatment?
*crickets chirping*
Excellent point!
“The clap” is Gonorrhea.
CC
Actually it's gonorrhea but I needed a rhyme.
Oh,OK.
No. Oral Tetracycline, azythromycin and Doxycycline can be used in those that have penicillin allergy. However, the standard of treatment is Benzathine Penicillin intramuclar injection.
The thing is, obviously they are running about, having rampant sex, and syphillis is not the only thing that is likely getting spread about.
The same article recommended that even in "exclusively monogamous" homosexual relationship that both "partners" should use a condom - every time.
Imagine applying this same demand to normal married couples. We'd be nearly extinct in a few decades.
Yes, there is a "cocktail" of diseases that homos are prone to, just like there is a cocktail of drugs to try to make them live a little longer.
I saw a post by a gay man recently somewhere on the net where he was saying ‘what do you want to get married for’ and running down married life as boring and antiquidated.
I’m sure that is the real opinion out there in larger numbers of these men. As you pointed out, even when they marry, it doesn’t reflect the marriage we all think of as ‘marriage’.
Distressing, and if Obama gets reelected, we will all be paying for these diseases with Obamacare.
So that’s what ‘the clap’ is. I knew it was an STD but I wasn’t sure which one.
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The clap is Gonorrhea.
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