Posted on 09/20/2022 9:36:48 AM PDT by karpov
Sharply rising cases of some sexually transmitted diseases, including a 26% rise in new syphilis infections reported last year, are prompting US health officials to call for new prevention and treatment efforts.
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Infections rates for some STDs, including gonorrhea and syphilis, have been rising for years. Last year the rate of syphilis cases reached its highest since 1991 and the total number of cases hit its highest since 1948. HIV cases are also on the rise, up 16% last year.
An international outbreak of monkeypox has further highlighted the nation’s worsening problem with diseases spread mostly through sex.
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Officials are working on new approaches to the problem, such as home-test kits for some STDs that will make it easier for people to learn they are infected and to take steps to prevent spreading it to others, Mena said.
Another expert said a core part of any effort must work to increase the use of condoms.
“It’s pretty simple. More sexually transmitted infections occur when people are having more unprotected sex,” said Mike Saag, an infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Syphilis is a bacterial disease that surfaces as genital sores but can ultimately lead to severe symptoms and death if left untreated. New syphilis infections plummeted in the US starting in the 1940s when antibiotics became widely available. They fell to their lowest ever by 1998, when fewer than 7,000 new cases were reported nationwide. The CDC was so encouraged by the progress it launched a plan to eliminate syphilis in the US.
But, by 2002, cases began rising again, largely among gay and bisexual men, and they kept going. In late 2013, CDC ended its elimination campaign in the face of limited funding and escalating cases, which that year surpassed 17,000.
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Almost like god is tired of being mocked
Homosexuals are amazing. They can resurrect defeated diseases.
Monkeypox wasn’t bad enough........................
Coined another one.
Guessing the immune weakness from the vax makes them more susceptible
Time to enforce a condom mandate.
But, by 2002, cases began rising again, largely among gay and bisexual men, and they kept going.
There’s the problem.
Once again, I make this point strongly.
The queers demanded marriage for, as one of the main reasons, to help alleviate the health disparities in that population by making them “more responsible” to the relationship.
The STD rates have gone through the roof in the queer population since 2015.
Can we get a refund on that decision?
Anyone having sex with strangers these days is an idiot.
Homosexuals don’t care as long as there are treatments or preventatives available. So why should I care? Have at it, homos!
That strategy is like trying to drive your car by only using the rear view mirror for navigation.
I remember that joke from the 80s
Gay guy comes out of the doctor’s office all happy and tells everybody, “It’s Syphilis!”
This issue’s a big deal to democrats and the AP because so many of the democrat’s -base - from groomers to sexual weirdos to sex workers to the deceived young to Hollywood and VP types who ‘sleep their way to the top’ and hellhole denizens are sexually diseased.
Inconvenient truth buried deep in the article.
The libs are great !! — stop the monkeypox and allow STDs to explode.
Do we even know if the vaccine isn’t spreading STDs ?
And what about those decrepit lgbt ads flooding the TV airwaves selling a drug that HIDES your HIV or AIDS from others.
Homo world we are living in.
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