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Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Health departments should adopt new notification policies for gay men
January 14th, 2004
A new report in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports describes the increasing association between early syphilis infection and use of the Internet among men who have sex with men (MSM) to meet sex partners. As the association between syphilis among MSM and the use of the Internet as a means for meeting sex partners grows, health departments must adopt new strategies for partner notification, said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the report. In an analysis of MSM diagnosed with early syphilis in 2002, the San Francisco Department of Health (SFDPH) and the CDC found that Internet chat rooms and sex partner sites...
Source: Biotech Week (2004-01-14)
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