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VANCOUVER, June 10, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) have  issued a warning  that syphilis infections in homosexual and bisexual men have soared to their highest levels in more than 30 years in the Vancouver area.  According to the warning, 2012 saw 371 new cases of syphilis reported in British Columbia. Eighty percent of those cases were diagnosed in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, which stretches from Metro Vancouver northward along the coast to Bella Coola , and were confined almost entirely to the male homosexual community. According to VCH's syphilis infection records, the disease was almost non-existent in the early 1990s, with only 3 infections, mostly associated with female prostitutes, reported in 1993. By 1997 the number of cases rose to 22, and then exploded as the disease shifted to the male homosexual community in the early 2000s. According to the  ...

OTTAWA, Ontario, November 28, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Blood Services ( CBS ) has revealed that it is about to exchange the lifetime ban on homosexuals donating blood for a deferral system. According to  a plan  submitted to Health Canada, men who have not had sex with other men for somewhere between five to ten years would be eligible to donate. CBS spokesman Ron Vezina  told the Edmonton Journal  that the organization is convinced that it has sufficient evidence to support a change from a permanent prohibition to a deferral. Canadian Red Cross had put the ban in place in 1983 after thousands of Canadians were infected with HIV and hepatitis C from contaminated blood. Criminal charges were laid against several doctors, blood products companies, and the Canadian Red Cross. The current blood prohibition  states : “All men who have had sex with another man, even once, since 1977 are indefinitely deferred. This is based on current scientif...