People
around the province who are having anonymous sex are being encouraged by
the chief medical health officer to be tested for sexually transmitted
disease.
Dr.
Eilish Cleary issuing the warning because of an increase in the numbers
of people in the province having unprotected sex with strangers they
meet on dating websites.
Recently,
a New Brunswicker, who was a frequent user of a website that
facilitates anonymous sexual encounters and had about two dozen sexual
partners living in the province, tested positive for HIV. Health
officials are now trying to track down the people, mostly men, he had
sex with.
The sexual encounters took place in Moncton, Saint John and Fredericton.