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International news Canada: A Call that May Bring Positive News -- if You're Unlucky in LoveOctober 28, 2008 Health officials in Victoria are this week launching a new Web site to help people inform their sexual contacts that they may have been exposed to an STD. Entitled "Let Them Know," the site offers STD-infected users the option of notifying their sexual partners via anonymous e-mail or text message. The effort replicates a similar site in the United States. According to an evaluation recently published in PLoS Medicine, only 10 persons have reported receiving an e-mail STD notification in error since the US site came online in 2004. Chlamydia cases in Victoria have jumped from 2,000 in 1999 to 11,000 in 2007, while syphilis cases have soared from fewer than 50 in 2001 to more than 400 in 2007. The Age (Melbourne) 10.28.2008; Julia Medew  This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
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