Syphilis Related Eye Infections are Rising Fast梅毒感染眼疾的是快速上升

Eye specialists have warned of a resurgence in syphilis-related eye infections as cases of the sexually-transmitted disease escalate in gay communities.眼科專科醫生,有警告說,有一個死灰復燃,在梅毒的相關眼感染個案的性傳播疾病的升級,在同性戀社區。

Ophthalmologists say they are treating growing numbers of men who present with painful, red eyes or hazy vision caused by syphilis infection.眼科醫生說,他們治療越來越多的男人誰,目前與痛苦的,紅色的眼睛或有煙霞視覺所造成的梅毒感染。

Homosexual men are most commonly affected, with infectious disease experts predicting the epidemic will spread through gay communities nationwide with time.男同性戀者是最常見的影響,傳染病專家預測疫情會蔓延,通過同性戀社區在全國范圍內與時間。

Fewer than 10 per cent of people who catch the disease develop symptoms in their eyes, causing redness, pain, light sensitivity and loss of vision.不到10 %的人誰趕上疾病的徵狀,在他們眼中,造成發紅,疼痛,對光線敏感和損失的視野。

But in those who do, 25 per cent will have no other symptoms of the syphilis and therefore often have no idea they have the debilitating condition.但在這些誰做的,百分之二十五的,不會有任何其他的症狀,梅毒,因此,往往不知道他們有衰弱的條件。

Syphilis notifications rose more than 20-fold in inner-Sydney between 1999 and 2003 - from six cases to 162.梅毒通知上升超過20倍,在黨內悉尼之間的1999年和2003年-從六宗個案,以1 62。

Victorian statistics show there were only two notifications of syphilis in 1999, but annual reports had ballooned to 238 by 2006.維多利亞統計數字顯示,當時只有兩個通知,梅毒在1999年,但年度報告已膨脹到238到2006年。 There were almost 80 cases in the first three months of 2007, showing numbers are rising further.有近80例在首3個月, 2007年,顯示號碼是進一步上升。

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