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Cases of sex infections reduced over ten years

THE public healthcare system recorded 2,169 sexually transmitted infections in 2022, 61 per cent –– or 1,320 –– of which were syphilis cases.

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Grand Bahama numbers for sexually transmitted infections see increase

GRAND Bahama is on track to record more sexually transmitted infections this year than in 2022.

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Canary in a coal mine

ALARMING GLOBAL FALL IN SPERM NUMBERS

IN THE 1900s, British coal miners were exposed to carbon monoxide and other lethal toxic gases. John Scott Haldane and his research on carbon monoxide would in that age provide a solution of using canaries, as early indicators of trouble prompting the miners to evacuate.

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Rape conviction dismissed after STD tests are different

THE Court of Appeal has freed a man previously convicted of raping an underage girl primarily because she tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease while he did not. The appellate court quashed Rukeithso Richardson’s 14-year sentence for hav