Considering the continuous misinformation campaign... I have no choice...
1) FSC did not decide anything on their own. They consulted 3 STD specialist including the top Syphilis researcher in the country, them together, the PROFESSIONALS, decided it is safer to give everyone a preventive shot of penicillin simply because the information of exposure was sketchy at best. (And the FSC never denied this to be the case btw, the exposure was simply not clear, and still is not fully clear today.)
2) I am not saying it is not spreading, but considering that as early as December there might have been Mr. Marcus with Primary Syphilis, thus him being contagious for roughly 3-4 weeks (while the chancre is not healed, after it is there is no infection possible until 2nd stage starts, which might start before or after it is healed), would mean that we should have seen more positives until now, at least thats what we should all hope! Look at the rapid spread in Europe.
There are 3 possible reasons for the difference in positives in my opinion: a) it did not spread as much, luckily; b) people are not testing, I hope thats not the case; c) people getting tested are not reported to LACHD.. We can only hope it is a)
3) One shot of penicillin does not all of a sudden render a bacterium like Syphilis resistant! Resistance of penicillin in bacterial infections is an issue across patients, not inside the same one. Increased use of penicillin causes bacteria that are resistant to it to increase in ratio to bacteria that is non resistant. So while bacteria spreads and over a long period of time, the whole population of the bacteria in a region or on the planet increases in terms of resistance. Stop putting fear in people, let them be helped!
If you are afraid of penicillin, there is a set of pills you can take too which are basically as effective, talk to your doctor about it! Do not let someone on GFY explain it to you!
4) 2nd stage of syphilis is NOT LATE STAGE. It does NOT REQUIRE 3 SHOTS!!!!
http://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/STDFact-syphilis.htm - Read the first two lines of "What is the treatment for Syphilis?" from the CDC!
5) On top of the treatment with penicillin or a set of pills, Manwin and all other APHSS following companies will require a full panel test after the 10 days to verify that no contagious Syphilis is present. Testing with APHSS has doctors involved so they can make sure that the patient is ok if need be for whatever reason!
6) Europe is waiting 60 days to make sure everyone is treated before anyone continues to work. 60 days is a very safe number for this. They do not give penicillin to everyone to kill the bacterium while spreading. Just as well, if someone does not want to take penicillin but shoot with an APHSS following company, then they will have to wait for 90 days and be tested negative twice! So the US industry is simply offering a way to start working sooner, and if you follow APHSS you know that either someone got cleared because of getting the shot and being negative after, or because they were negative for 90 days without treatment.
7) Syphilis is contagious while there are unhealed sores! It is not contagious as long as the test for it is reactive!!!
I know that I will regret that I am trying to help, but oh well....