Posted on 03/11/2008 9:46:15 AM PDT by Sopater
At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group.
A virus that causes cervical cancer is by far the most common sexually transmitted infection in teen girls aged 14 to 19, while the highest overall prevalence is among black girls — nearly half the blacks studied had at least one STD. That rate compared with 20 percent among both whites and Mexican-American teens, the study from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.
Among girls who admitted ever having sex, the rate was 40 percent. While some teens define sex as only intercourse, other types of intimate behavior including oral sex can spread some infections.
For many, the numbers likely seem "overwhelming because you're talking about nearly half of the sexually experienced teens at any one time having evidence of an STD," said Dr. Margaret Blythe, an adolescent medicine specialist at Indiana University School of Medicine and head of the American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on adolescence.
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—like spouse abuse during Super Bowl and anexoria claims, I don’t believe this-—
I don’t believe those numbers. Sounds more like a prop piece to mandate Gardisil.
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I agree the numbers seem high, but thank you Bill Clinton.
If this is true then what is the rate for teenage boys? These dieases just don’t come from two virgins fooling around.
...although they are, no doubt, wanting to push the cervical std vaccine.
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"nearly half the blacks studied had at least one STD. That rate compared with 20 percent among both whites and Mexican-American teens,"
Obviously whiteys fault.
That was EXACTLY my first thought.
Since they go has high as 19, I believe it.
Bull——
This is just more “evidence” for the graphic “everybody does it” sex-ed crowd.
That's what I was thinking too.
I do notice a lot of cold sores on little ladies lips...from a distance
“That was EXACTLY my first thought.”
Like minds...
Glad someone else is paying attention.
I am worried for my 14 year old boys. And Rush is talking about how Dershowitz says going to a prostitute is just normal guy stuff. My husband feels insulted by that.
This is how the libs try to make those who don't go sneaking around doing their illegal behavior to feel left out and strange. Expect more deviance is norm from the Clinton supporters.
I agree.
A lot of this can be squarely laid on the steps of public indoctrination = aka education.
Just think how much worse it could be had it not been for those kindergarten sex education classes /s
“.....20 percent among..whites”
Horse$hit.
The rest of it......
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