Posted on 03/27/2013 6:16:55 PM PDT by thecodont
(CNSNews.com) - According to new data released by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 19.7 million new venereal infections in the United States in 2008, bringing the total number of existing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the U.S. at that time to 110,197,000.
The 19.7 million new STIs in 2008 vastly outpaced the new jobs and college graduates created in the United States that year or any other year on record, according to government data. The competition was not close.
The STI study referenced by the CDC estimated that 50 percent of the new infections in 2008 occurred among people in the 15-to-24 age bracket. In fact, of the 19,738,800 total new STIs in the United States in 2008, 9,782,650 were among Americans in the 15-to-24 age bracket.
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The people in the second group have this little health problem because they married someone from the first group.
I thought the same thing at first, but look closer - these are infections - people can have multiple types of STDs, and likely do. I want to know how many PEOPLE have STDs by age and race/ethnicity. I read somewhere that the old Boomers are getting STDs, too, at alarming rates. Not pretty - and condoms don’t help for a lot of this because the fluids can still penetrate through along with the disease and pestilence.
Washington DC has a very large homosexual population, which would explain its higher rate of STDs, plus all those grotesque switch-hitter politcians running our country into the ground.
With high probability, yes, though if the virginal sister in the documented case of transmission by clothing-sharing saves herself for marriage, she and her husband (if he, too lived up to the Christian ideal of chastity) would be counter-examples.
You are a little behind the times. On free republic I learned an amazing factoid about cervical cancer of the throat! Turns out the throat can store HPV and get cancer.
It is a lesbian disease and has nothing to do with fornication.
There was also a post describing the use of saran wrap to prevent transmission. I can’t remember what the procedure was called.
I’m not a doctor or a medical researcher so I have to depend on common sense and what I can find online. When you search questions like “how many Americans have STDs each year?” or “how many Americans have multiple STD infections each year?” you will get a range of data which probably gives a fairly accurate view of what is happening.
At any given time a certain percentage of the populations has HAD a venereal disease and that percentage varies within a range over the years. That range of rates is certain to be higher than the currently active infections at that same given time.
I would be interested in finding out how those “currently” infected and “at one time” infected rates have changed over the years. This isn’t a new problem and it probably isn’t a solvable problem which leads me to believe not much has changed.
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