Men get syphilis from online acquaintances
Gay men in California who contracted syphilis through unsafe sex used the Internet more than any other venue to find sex partners, researchers reported at a national HIV prevention conference in Atlanta yesterday. Last year, most of the California men who had syphilis also said they were HIV-positive, researchers said. The reliance on Internet chat rooms, personal ads and sex party postings increased more than threefold since the first half of 2001; 40 percent of men with syphilis interviewed said they used the Internet to find sex partners during the first half of 2003, said epidemiologist Terrence Lo. Newsday
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