One baby with syphilis born every hour in China: study

AFP - One child was born with syphilis every hour in China in 2008, researchers said Thursday, as new money from the country's growing economy fuels the world's fastest-growing epidemic of the disease.

Syphilis was almost wiped out in China 50 years ago, but it is now the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease in Shanghai, according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

Female sex workers and homosexual men are driving the infection rate, the researchers said, and there is evidence that social pressures are discouraging people from seeking treatment at official clinics.

"After China's economy became increasingly market-based in the 1980s, the growing numbers of Chinese businessmen with money and young women without money translated into expanded demand and supply for the country's commercial sex industry," the article said.

that's because it is market based syphilis.

It's pretty obvious that heterosexual men are doing their part to spread syphillis, otherwise those female prostitutes wouldn't be having syphillitic babies. Unless I am mistaken, gay men don't usually buy sex from female hookers.

So, are we to assume that the "young women without money" are being impregnated by the "Chinese businessmen with money" with syphillitic babies? That's certainly depressing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8664168.stm

PT

http://www.france24.com/en/20100506-one-baby-with-syphilis-born-every-hour-china-study-0

not enough coffee and maybe a too depressing news hit me together, yes.
i forgot to mention the link.
:)