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STDs hit all-time highs in US for fourth straight year, CDC reports
fox news ^ | ALexandria Hein

Posted on 08/29/2018 8:19:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Sexually-transmitted diseases continue to hit all-time highs in the U.S. with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reporting a 10 percent spike for chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in 2017. The federal health agency said in a report released Tuesday that the numbers, which include nearly 2.3 million new cases of the aforementioned diseases, reflect a “steep, sustained increase” in STDs since 2013.

“We’re sliding backward,” Jonathan Mermin, director of CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, said. “It is evident the systems that identify, treat and ultimately prevent STDs are strained to near-breaking point.”

While primary and secondary syphilis diagnoses went up by 76 percent, chlamydia remained the most commonly reported to the CDC with nearly half of the new cases occurring in females ages 15-to-24.

The three highlighted diseases are treatable, but the report said most go undiagnosed, which can lead to infertility, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth and an increased HIV risk. The report noted that previous studies have pointed to poverty, stigma, discrimination and drug use as contributing factors.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cdc; obamalegacy; std; stds
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To: BenLurkin

i imagine that young women, due to the internet are now watching porn at an all time high.
Lowering inhibitions and all...


21 posted on 08/29/2018 9:05:12 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: BenLurkin

I have a buddy who met this women in vegas Like 15 years ago he ended up having sex with.
A few weeks later he came down with Jock Itch, a fungal infection of the lower groin.
never had it before and to this day is recurring.

It’s not just Gonorrhea, Syphilis or crabs that you can catch from these skanks..


22 posted on 08/29/2018 9:10:45 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: montag813
GAY MEN are 92% responsible for this increase. But you have to scour the footnotes to figure that out.

But, “The report noted that previous studies have pointed to poverty, stigma, discrimination and drug use as contributing factors.” Its all the stigma and discrimination in our society that causes the spread of disease. If everyone would be more accepting of male perverts putting their members where they shouldn't and using girls bathrooms... it would all be OK. /S

23 posted on 08/29/2018 9:15:07 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I had bicillin shots back in 1961 for really bad tonsillitis (Quinsy). It was a big tube, very thick fluid. it had to be warmed under hot water to make it flow and even then the nurse had a time pushing the plunger on the syringe.

Nothing's changed. The syringe looks brutal.
24 posted on 08/29/2018 9:24:31 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: ConservativeMind

“I can’t imagine dating a hookup lady.”

I can’t imagine dating an American, and my boys do not! Plenty of other options.


25 posted on 08/29/2018 9:38:15 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: BenLurkin

democrats.


26 posted on 08/29/2018 9:41:49 AM PDT by Leep
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To: BenLurkin

Maybe sex should be regulated like tobacco, after all, many will use insurance to pay for treatment and, if you have an std, your behavior harms others (as opposed to “second hand smoke” which has trivial impact). Some stds even harm the unborn.

And no sex outside of marriage along with no divorce will cut stds almost down to nil.


27 posted on 08/29/2018 9:43:03 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: BenLurkin

If a girl has tattoos and piercing, its a good bet she has venereal disease.


28 posted on 08/29/2018 9:46:35 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: BenLurkin

“Well, they gave me Gonorrhea!” ......... Kramer


29 posted on 08/29/2018 10:00:51 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: BipolarBob

In related news, Univ of TX’s first day of the new year is today.

Local doctors don’t like the sponge or such birth control methods because it leaves the viruses still inside.


30 posted on 08/29/2018 10:29:04 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: BenLurkin


"Listen here. I done my part."
31 posted on 08/29/2018 10:43:21 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: tuffydoodle

Yes, it is insane.


32 posted on 08/29/2018 12:00:15 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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To: NorthMountain

I thought coked-up weasels mostly killed whole coops of chickens.


33 posted on 08/29/2018 12:01:29 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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To: Tax-chick

Then they celebrate their defeat of the Eeeevul Chikkkenz with a Victory Orgy.

;’}


34 posted on 08/29/2018 12:12:10 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Survival of the species and all that.


35 posted on 08/29/2018 12:14:55 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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To: Tax-chick

They probably don’t get VD ... unlike Homo not-so-Sapiens who emulate their behavior.


36 posted on 08/29/2018 12:16:28 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Now I’m curious about sexually-transmitted diseases in the animal kingdom.


37 posted on 08/29/2018 12:23:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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To: Tax-chick

It seems there are quite a lot.


38 posted on 08/29/2018 12:24:13 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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To: Tax-chick

Really? I did not know that.

It does lend credence to the theory that some of these diseases entered the human population by way of people doing unspeakable things with animals ...


39 posted on 08/29/2018 12:25:42 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

That theory was mentioned in my quick search. However, many STDs are spread through contaminated blood, and there are a lot of ways humans could come in contact with animal blood. Similarly, we usually think of Hepatitis-C as sexually-transmitted, but it can be spread in other conditions of very poor cleanliness, such as in day-care centers.


40 posted on 08/29/2018 12:31:05 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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