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Sexually transmitted disease rates soar: CDC
reuters.com/ ^ | Tue Jan 13, 2009 | Will Dunham

Posted on 01/13/2009 12:39:05 PM PST by shielagolden

Sexually transmitted disease rates soar: CDC WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. syphilis rates rose for a seventh year in 2007, driven by gay and bisexual men, while chlamydia reached record numbers and gonorrhea remained at alarming levels -- especially among blacks, health officials said on Tuesday. Blacks make up 12 percent of the U.S. population, but account for about 70 percent of gonorrhea cases and almost half of chlamydia and syphilis cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Black women ages 15 to 19 have the highest rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea, and gonorrhea rates for blacks overall were 19 times higher than for whites, the CDC said.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chlamydia; gonorrhea; health; moralabsolutes; syphilis
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To: pappyone

“...a black teen that just gots to have that monkey love alls the time...”

WTF? Just because you’re new doesn’t mean you have to be stupid.


21 posted on 01/13/2009 1:15:56 PM PST by stormer
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To: Tomato lover
The abortion numbers in the US are top heavy with black Americans. I read not too long ago that the percentage of blacks in the US will not increase greatly in the next census due to this fact.
22 posted on 01/13/2009 1:19:23 PM PST by warsaw44
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To: Tomato lover

They were about 14% in the 70s. But two main things have occurred. First, half of all black children conceived are killed by abortion. (See Black Genocide.org) Second, the Hispanic population has a higher live birth rate than the black population. The 14% figure has slowly edged towards 12% in the last 30 years.


23 posted on 01/13/2009 1:21:36 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: wagglebee

list?


24 posted on 01/13/2009 1:24:03 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: shielagolden

I can see this as a ploy for Planned Parenthood and on school campus public health asking for a lot of fed/state funding to treat the Epedimic.

I dont know where gay men go for free sex health care so cant list their clinic outlet.


25 posted on 01/13/2009 1:25:43 PM PST by Global2010 (God Will see us through. Persevere)
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To: shielagolden
Hussein's fault!

: )

26 posted on 01/13/2009 1:26:40 PM PST by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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To: shielagolden

This is a racist and sexist diatribe.

How unlike Reuters to point out uncomplimentary facts about the protected classes.

This type of hate talk will not be permitted after the Coronation.

/sarcasm_off/


27 posted on 01/13/2009 1:26:40 PM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself)
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To: Abathar

I’m surprised it wasn’t redacted, and displayed so prominently.

Just wait for the revision, (French) Reuters hasn’t heard from the gang yet on how this is supposed to be presented.


28 posted on 01/13/2009 1:27:10 PM PST by Boiling Pots (The USA has become one huge pyramid scheme. Thanks George, John, Nancy and Harry.)
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To: Tomato lover

Consider abortion, as to why their birth rates are not as high as you might think.


29 posted on 01/13/2009 1:28:20 PM PST by Boiling Pots (The USA has become one huge pyramid scheme. Thanks George, John, Nancy and Harry.)
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To: shielagolden

Just gotta love that sexual revolution huh?


30 posted on 01/13/2009 1:29:19 PM PST by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: shielagolden
U.S. syphilis rates rose for a seventh year in 2007, driven by gay and bisexual men, while chlamydia reached record numbers and gonorrhea remained at alarming levels...

If this gets any worse, it might even be worth trying abstinance, followed by fidelity. I know, reactionary concept, but if it prevents disease it migfht be a nice experiment.

31 posted on 01/13/2009 1:32:34 PM PST by MathDoc (Don't blame me, I voted for Governor Palin and the wrinkly white-haired guy)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

The Census Bureau put the percentage of the population which is black at 12.7% in 2000 and 12.8% in their July 2006 estimate. The highest percentage was the first census, in 1790, when black people were 19.3% of the population—that had dropped to 9.7% in 1930 after the decades of massive immigration from Europe.


32 posted on 01/13/2009 1:37:09 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: massgopguy

Illustrations of that kind get the attention of young people more than adults, I think. We talk about teenagers’ thinking they’re invincible, but there are many adults who think being over 21 confers immunity from the consequences of foolish behavior.

We sometimes use the handshake activity in Girl Scouts and even Sunday School in the late fall, to illustrate the spread of colds, flu, and that nasty digestive crud.


33 posted on 01/13/2009 1:43:33 PM PST by Tax-chick (To oppose the god of this world by lifting up Christ.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Doesn’t matter. He was elected in 2000 so it’s close enough.


34 posted on 01/13/2009 1:45:18 PM PST by abigailsmybaby (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.)
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35 posted on 01/13/2009 1:47:08 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: shielagolden

Taken as a whole..... Urban Blacks are a cancer on American society.


36 posted on 01/13/2009 1:48:50 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The original point of America was not to be Europe)
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To: shielagolden
Black women ages 15 to 19...

Since when is a girl 15 years old a woman? Whenever it suits your cause I suppose.

37 posted on 01/13/2009 1:56:14 PM PST by ladtx ( "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - - Will Rogers)
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To: shielagolden

Gee, wonder what causes it.


38 posted on 01/13/2009 2:04:08 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Tomato lover, see post 32 for more information.


39 posted on 01/13/2009 2:17:51 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: bert

Taken as a whole..... Urban Blacks are a cancer on American society.


I think it might be more accurate and less inflammatory to say:

Taken as a whole..... Urban Black Culture is a cancer on American society.


40 posted on 01/13/2009 2:18:14 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Guns don't kill people. Criminals and the governments that create them kill people.)
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