Facebook 'linked to rise in syphilis'

[BloodEclipse]

Facebook has been linked to a resurgence in the sexually-transmitted disease syphilis, according to health experts.



Published: 6:30AM GMT 24 Mar 2010

Facebook has been linked to a resurgence in the sexually-transmitted disease syphilis, according to health experts. Photo: BLOOMBERG


The virus has increased fourfold in Sunderland, Durham and Teesside, the areas of Britain where Facebook is most popular, because it has given people a new way to meet multiple partners for casual sexual encounters.
Professor Peter Kelly, director of public health in Teesside, said staff had found a link between social networking sites and the rise in cases, especially among young women.

He said: “Syphilis is a devastating disease. Anyone who has unprotected sex with casual partners is at high risk.


"There has been a fourfold increase in the number of syphilis cases detected with more young women being affected.
"I don't get the names of people affected, just figures, and I saw that several of the people had met sexual partners through these sites.
"Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex."
In Teesside there were 30 recorded cases of syphilis last year, but the true figures are expected t be much higher.
Research has shown that young people in Sunderland, Durham and Teesside were 25 per cent more likely to log onto social networking sites than those in the rest of Britain.
A Facebook spokesman said: users should "take precautions" and be careful when meeting up with anyone they have met online.

Next thing you know they will link being horny with online porn.

 

[Blue Tile Spook]

I put a condom on the antenna of my router. I'm safe.

And, and I don't use Facebook.

 

[caddywhompus]

I put a condom on the antenna of my router. I'm safe.

And, and I don't use Facebook.

I use it but I get tested regularly....It's just not the same with a wrapped router.....

 

[Cemetery-man]

Facebook is the WORST! At some friends and family members requests, I joined Facebook. Less than a month after joining I got a very nasty virus attached to a video from a friend (which was immediately sent to everyone on my friends list) and I had to completely restore my computer to get rid of the thing.

 

[360]

...so THAT'S where my itching and burning came from?!?!?!?!?

And I though it was because I took a leak right with my contaminated hands after cleaning my guns.

How silly of me.

 

[ihateiraq]

this article is no joke. replace syphilis with the clap, and ill personally attest to its truthfulness.

 

[Fletch]

Facebook has been linked to a resurgence in the sexually-transmitted disease syphilis, according to health experts.

Half this picture is taken up by a screenshot of the word "facebook". Given the way our brains make associations, that must mean that the other half has something to do with syphilis.

Makes you wonder how this guy feels about being known as "the syphilis guy".

 

[Bluedragon]

So was the moral of the story not to have unprotected sex with strangers you meet off the internet? Um I mean that should just be common sense in itself....

 

[Bigum1969]

 

[thej27]

My facebook account got hacked and someone was using it to send malicious links to my friends. So I just closed the account. Sounds like just in time to I could have gotten that syphilis.

 

[Glock21]

So what STD is being spread through INGO?

[...he asked, providing a perfect set-up for the most clever of INGO members.]

 

[BloodEclipse]

So what STD is being spread through INGO?

[...he asked, providing a perfect set-up for the most clever of INGO members.]

My guess would be EBRD.

 

[HandK]

And my keyboard makes me misspell words!!! I knew it all along!!!

 

[jclark]

So what STD is being spread through INGO?

[...he asked, providing a perfect set-up for the most clever of INGO members.]

Crabs?