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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: shielagolden
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.

So one could conclude that white hos are safer to "visit", than black ones? ...It always pays to be an informed consumer, I would think.

41 posted on 01/13/2009 2:44:40 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: Skooz

Funny. Funny. Sitting here laughing.


42 posted on 01/13/2009 2:56:51 PM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
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To: massgopguy

Well that was the last time she went to her kid’s school.
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I hope that woman had the good sense to remove her child immediately from that school.


43 posted on 01/13/2009 2:59:20 PM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
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To: stormer

It doesn’t do a lot of good for a moderator to remove an offensive post, if it is repeated.


44 posted on 01/13/2009 3:17:16 PM PST by ValerieTexas
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To: ValerieTexas

Right you are. I just didn’t want that idiot to have any question about why he was offensive.


45 posted on 01/13/2009 3:29:36 PM PST by stormer
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To: shielagolden

Of course, if they were to receive vaccine they might be reduced.

http://www.cdc.gov/STD/hpv/STDFact-HPV-vaccine-hcp.htm

Then again this might limit the individual rights parents have to decide what’s best for their children.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2163879/posts?page=31#28


46 posted on 01/13/2009 3:33:38 PM PST by PurpleMan
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To: ladtx

Woman/child is really interchangeable depending on the slant.

Like the Bristol Palin pregnancy, if she got an abortion, she would have been within her rights as a woman, but since she had the baby, she is a mere child.


48 posted on 01/13/2009 4:09:31 PM PST by panthermom
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To: Beelzebubba

I’ll buy that revision.

In light of the days attacks on America by members of the Black Caucus, a little inflammation is not a bad thing.


49 posted on 01/13/2009 4:21:37 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The original point of America was not to be Europe)
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To: TASMANIANRED
Gee, wonder what causes it.

: O

50 posted on 01/13/2009 6:09:44 PM PST by HoosierHawk
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To: HoosierHawk

Wonder what the graph would look like if you graphed teen pregnancy rates, abortion rates and sexually transmitted diseases against the years that mandatory sex ed started in public schools? and then graphed it against gay tolerance education?

Enquiring minds want to know.


51 posted on 01/13/2009 6:12:01 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: TASMANIANRED
I'd bet you're right and that the works been done. I just wouldn't know where to look for it.

But I'll look around.

52 posted on 01/13/2009 6:18:58 PM PST by HoosierHawk
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To: Tomato lover

Besides abortion, immigration also impacts the overall population. Since Asians and Latin Americans are much bigger groups of immigrants compared to sub-Saharan Africans, the black percentage of the US population hasn’t really changed much over the past few decades.

Plus, the shamefully high black on black murder rate in many of our cities for young black men also has an impact.


53 posted on 01/13/2009 7:23:08 PM PST by LenS
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