03-02-2010, 01:31 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Calgary
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Alberta sees 'disturbing' jump in syphilis infections
With 263 cases of syphilis confirmed in 2009 - seven per cent more than in 2008 and a huge increase since 1996, when the province had no syphilis cases
http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/...568/story.html
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03-02-2010, 01:32 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Not a surprise since Edmonton signed Comrie last season.
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03-02-2010, 01:51 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Calgary.
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What's even more scary......the 12-20 demographic has likely seen the biggest increase. Admittedly that's pure speculation (at this point) but there have been a lot of revelations about youth promiscuity (specifically sex without protection) in the news/papers recently.
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03-02-2010, 01:51 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Calgary
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The numbers should go down, there's less chance of catching it since ETS isn't as available these days...
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03-02-2010, 01:58 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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I guess they didn't sample Banff in 1996.
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03-02-2010, 02:01 PM
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Norm!
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hmmm I wonder if the index patient is a member of this board?
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03-02-2010, 02:05 PM
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Isn't Banff like the STD capital of Canada?
And this is not really anything new - they've had "anti-syphilis" ads running on buses and trains since last Stampede, obviously due to a provincial problem. Nothing new here to note.
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03-02-2010, 02:10 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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That guy sort of resembles iggypop
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03-02-2010, 02:10 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Makes sense with the decline in religion an all, and the influx of people from the coast looking for jobs
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03-02-2010, 02:20 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: @robdashjamieson
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I blame Fotze.
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03-02-2010, 02:30 PM
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by FTFA
"(Officials) have to decide whether they think (fighting and preventing syphilis) is more important than having some gold medal Olympians," Houston said.
"It depends where your priorities are, but quite frankly I think that's profoundly disturbing."
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God I hate arguments like that.
Bluntly, having gold medal Olympians are more important than fighting a disease that affects 8 in 100,000 people in this province. Gold medal Olympians encourage kids to get active and be in better shape, which does far more for the health of the population than the OMG! EVERYBODY PANIC!!!1 attitude medical people like to take.
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03-02-2010, 02:39 PM
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More like the province chose to fund million dollar bridges instead of having the balls to implement a functional sex education course.
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03-02-2010, 02:42 PM
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Boston pizzas in Edmonton never tasted so good.
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03-02-2010, 02:42 PM
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Franchise Player
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I wonder if there is going to be another correlational increase in the spread of more harmful diseases such as HIV?
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03-02-2010, 02:53 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flash Walken
More like the province chose to fund million dollar bridges instead of having the balls to implement a functional sex education course.
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Do parents need to be paid for teaching their kids about the birds and the bees?
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03-02-2010, 02:58 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Calgary
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I imagine with Alberta, year after year having the largest net interprovincial migration (or in Ralph talk, creeps and bums) for the last 15 years,many of those chasing the pot at the end of the rainbow, has something to do with this too.
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03-02-2010, 03:00 PM
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I just jumped into this thread to apologize to everyone - Especially your wives, girlfriends and sisters.
I knew the itching was something...
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03-02-2010, 03:06 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Calgary
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oh, good, maybe there's a bright side to my sexless existence.
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03-02-2010, 03:35 PM
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Took an arrow to the knee
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto
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You prostitute-humping, puss-oozing, blister-forming Albertans disgust me!
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03-02-2010, 03:41 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
You prostitute-humping, puss-oozing, blister-forming Albertans disgust me!
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I'm willing to bet there's more chance of getting an STI from some random floozy you picked up at a bar or club than an actual prostitute, granted the prostitute is of the slightly higher-end variety. Not like Tiger Woods higher-end, more like just not-a-$20-blowjob-in-some-poor-sod's-car higher-end.
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