Miami syphilis rate is among top 10 U.S. cities

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Fri, Nov. 21, 2003

HEALTH
Miami syphilis rate is among top 10 U.S. cities
As syphilis cases around the country increase, South Florida continues to have some of the highest rates in the nation.
From Herald Staff and Wire Reports

Triggered mainly by an increase in cases among gay and bisexual men, the nation's syphilis rate jumped for a second consecutive year, according to a government report that lists Miami as having one of the top 10 rates among U.S. cities.

Between 2001 and 2002, the syphilis rate rose 9.1 percent from 2.2 cases per 100,000 people to 2.4 cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. The rate had dropped every year between 1990 and 2000 before reversing course.

The actual increase in cases was small -- 759 more people, for a total of 6,862 new cases -- but the rise among gay and bisexual men has caused concern that the public health safeguards and safe-sex practices adopted over the last two decades during the AIDS epidemic continue to crumble.

''The vast majority of the United States is not seeing any syphilis at all,'' said Dr. John Douglas, director of the CDC's division of sexually transmitted diseases. ``We're seeing syphilis rise primarily in groups of gay and bisexual men.'' (snip/...)

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/7315671.htm

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Miami also holds the distinction of being the nation's poorest large city (over 500,000 population) again, according to the national census.

Miami was also named the "terror capital of the U.S." by the FBI, previously.

[whirlygigspin]

1. that would explain

why they vote republican, would it not?

[donsu]

2. I don't believe

"the vast majority of the United States is not seeing any syphilis at all,"

Miami doesn't live in a bubble, Miami is a crossroads.

That quote is a lie

[Judi Lynn]

4. I took a quick dash to google, entered Miami Syphilis

and grabbed this article from the Miami Herald, from earlier this year, from google's 22,500 entries:

(snip) Posted on Sun, Mar. 23, 2003

Syphilis outbreak called epidemic
Cases signal return of high-risk sexual behavior, health experts say
BY MONICA RHOR
[e-mail]

Syphilis, once nearly eradicated in South Florida, is on the rise again in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, where cases are increasing so significantly that health officials are calling it an epidemic.

The numbers -- which have grown steadily during the past five years -- are certainly alarming:

Broward, where 13 cases were reported in 1998, is now seeing an average 11 new cases a month. From 2001 to 2002, the number of new syphilis cases in the county jumped 88 percent; in Dade, the cases rose 19 percent. In the first two months of this year, Dade cases went up 30 percent compared with the same period last year.

Last November, Miami and Fort Lauderdale were ranked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention among the eight U.S. cities with the highest number of new syphilis cases. (snip/...)

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/5460309.htm

I can't remember the distance between Ft. Lauderdale and Miami, but they're close. It IS notable that the two of them represent 2 of 8 American cities boasting the highest rate.

[leesa]

3. I think we are seeing the set-up to incarcerate homosexuals

to prevent disease transmission. I think the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act would cover such a thing. There was another article that said San Francisco had the highest rate of syphillis and specifically referred to homosexuals. I think this is why they refuse to fund programs designed to stop the spreads of AIDS and STDs so they can say nothing is working, we have to isolate these people.

[preciousdove]

5. syphilis and Lyme Disease

"I went into the woods and came out with the clap" -- Micheal J Fox on getting Lyme Disease while filming "Doc" in Canada.

"When you have seen (insert spirochetal disease here ie syphillis, yaws, relapsing fever, lyme disease) you have seen all of medicine."
--From a medical textbook

Lyme Disease is listed as a biological terrorism agent, one of 34 on the list.
Weaponized spirochetal research was carried out on Plum Island of the coast of Lyme, CT with ferry service from Long Island New York using former Nazi researchers. Same researchers published in Europe and in the US that 50% of MS is spriochetal disease. Other things it can cause are ALS, crib death, dementia, Juvinile arthritis, arthritis, CFS, and multiple organ failure.

The CDC/NIH/FDA consitantly give research grants to those who would minimize or lie about the disease to allow the marketing of an ineffective vaccine and 100's of tests that detect only 39% of blood borne Lyme Disease. Lyme Disease has a slight genetic shift from host to host making "a specific test" for a large area next to impossible. Lyme Disease is a deep tissue disease, leaving the blood stream in about 3-6 weeks and reemerging when the host body is stressed.

LDA has conservatively estimated over 1.5 million Americans are fighting this debilitating disease. The medical insurance companies have decided that the 20% of the people who cannot naturally fight off the disease should be left untreated so that they will be eliminated from private insurance within 2 years of infection (because they can no longer work or they have exhausted the allocated benefits for the disease).

Other people who have battled Lyme Disease: Amy Tan, Martha Stewart, Sen Harkin, IA, Sen Smith TX, David Letterman and many more.

[donsu]

6. thank you - didn't know all that

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