"Unsafe sex": the consequences.Toronto--Last January Thane thane n. 1. a. A freeman granted land by the king in return for military service in Anglo-Saxon England. b. A man ranking above an ordinary freeman and below a nobleman in Anglo-Saxon England. 2. Burnett in the Toronto Sun (Jan. 11, 2004) reported that sexual diseases are bounding back. While we were learning to fight new diseases such as SARS, others which were thought to have been brought under control have returned with a vengeance. Burnett wrote that between 1997 and 2001 gonorrhea gonorrhea (gŏnərē`ə), common infectious disease caused by a bacterium (Neisseria gonorrhoeae), involving chiefly the mucous membranes of the genitourinary tract. cases in Canada rose by 45%. Vancouver has the world's largest outbreak of syphilis. Sex education in New Brunswick is under attack because of a high rate of chlamydia and an increase in mortality rates for cervical cancer. The Toronto Star also reported that syphilis rates soared in 2003, particularly among men who have sex with men Men who have sex with men (MSM) is a term used mostly in the United States to classify men who engage in sex with other men, regardless of whether they self-identify as gay, bisexual, or heterosexual. . More than a third of the people newly infected with the disease are co-infected with HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. , making blood tests to detect syphilis harder to read and allowing the disease to spread rapidly (Star, Feb. 23). On September 1, 2004, Betsy Powell, crime reporter for the Star, stated that the rate of sexually transmitted diseases Sexually transmitted diseases Infections that are acquired and transmitted by sexual contact. Although virtually any infection may be transmitted during intimate contact, the term sexually transmitted disease is restricted to conditions that are largely in Toronto has jumped over the past five years, with HIV, gonorrhea and chlamydia increasing by about 50 per cent. People talk about "condom fatigue" and people are tired of warnings, said Dr. Rita Shahin, acting director of communicable disease control at Toronto Public Health. She added, "It's a hard behaviour to sustain." |
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