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I don't understand why syphilis is making a 'comeback', unless it's because of all of our immigration - different customs, no medical screening any more to get in here (can't profile!). Or maybe we're now calling syphilis what it is - instead of just lumping it into the 'STD' category.

I don't understand why syphilis is making a 'comeback'

I do, science coming out with new medicines and homo's and their diseases being classed as victims/protected instead of what they are; disease carrying (potential carriers for those who do not have something yet) transmitters. Science and their cocktails of drugs have made homo's immune to rational thought. Crimeny...There are idiots out there "chasing the bug"..These idiots are actively searching the "gift" (as they call it) of AIDS. They know they get special treatment, special rights and kid gloves all the way around.

Disgusting to the core.

"I don't understand why syphilis is making a 'comeback', unless it's because of all of our immigration - different customs, no medical screening any more to get in here (can't profile!). Or maybe we're now calling syphilis what it is - instead of just lumping it into the 'STD' category."

IIRC, legal immigrants are tested for TB, syphilis, HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis B and C viruses. There could be more communicable diseases for which they are tested.

Syphilis was never completely eliminated. In the past it was called "the great impersonator" because it could resemble so many other diseases depending on its stage of progression.

There has been a notable disregard in the homosexual and bisexual population of the practices that constitute "safe sex", especially since the development of the newer drugs to treat HIV/AIDS.

For all of their supposed sophistication, many of these ignorant folks don't understand that it's a chronic, progressive, fatal disease that has no cure or promissing vaccine on the horizon. Not only that, they seem to think it's everybody else's fault.