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Homosexuality and Syphilis (view source)
Revision as of 02:12, October 7, 2007
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The abstract for an article in the ''[[International Journal of STD & AIDS]]'' reported the following about a recent outbreak of syphilis in [[Europe]]:
The abstract for an article in the ''[[International Journal of STD & AIDS]]'' reported the following about a recent outbreak of syphilis in [[Europe]]:
{{cquote|Since the late 1990s, there has been a resurgence of infectious syphilis, with notable outbreaks in Brighton, Manchester, London and Dublin, predominantly among men who have sex with men (MSM). We report a similar outbreak in Northern Ireland. Genitourinary (GU) medicine clinic attendees were assessed from 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2005 to identify those who met the agreed criteria for primary, secondary or early latent syphilis. In total, 161 individuals were diagnosed with syphilis and 121 were MSM [males having sex with males]. Sixteen individuals indicated a contact in Dublin as the likely source of infection.<ref>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17609034&ordinalpos=4&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum</ref>}}
{{cquote|Since the late 1990s, there has been a resurgence of infectious syphilis, with notable outbreaks in Brighton, Manchester, London and Dublin, predominantly among men who have sex with men (MSM). We report a similar outbreak in Northern Ireland. Genitourinary (GU) medicine clinic attendees were assessed from 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2005 to identify those who met the agreed criteria for primary, secondary or early latent syphilis. In total, 161 individuals were diagnosed with syphilis and 121 were MSM [males having sex with males]. Sixteen individuals indicated a contact in Dublin as the likely source of infection.<ref>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17609034&ordinalpos=4&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum</ref>}}
The abstact for an 2007 article in the [[International Journal of STD & AIDS]] stated the following regarding an outbreak of syphilus in [[Birmingham]], [[England]]:
{{cquote|During the 12-month period, 69 new cases of primary, secondary and early latent syphilis were diagnosed. Patients were most commonly male (96%), aged between 20 and 44 years, symptomatic (84%) and were white men who had sex with men or Asian/Black Caribbean heterosexual men.<ref>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17609033&ordinalpos=5&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum</ref>}}
==References==
==References==