1 Chinese baby born with syphilis every hour

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Every hour a baby is born in China with syphilis, as the world's fastest-growing epidemic of the disease is fueled by men with new money from the nation's booming economy, researchers say.

The easy-to-cure bacterial infection, which was nearly wiped out in China five decades ago, is now the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease in its largest city, Shanghai.

Prostitutes along with gay and bisexual men, many of whom are married with families, are driving the epidemic, according to a commentary published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The increase reflects the country's staggering economic growth, providing both businessmen and migrant laborers more cash and opportunity to pay for unsafe sex while away from home.

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Edited May 7, 2010 by El Buscador

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Every hour a baby is born in China with syphilis,

as usual, the chinese are understating a negative by a factor of 100 fold.

they say there is no aids in china, too, and yet, i know a an entire county (6 million) that has been appropriated solely for occupancy by individuals with aids.