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Sexually transmitted diseases are getting worse in the United States, increasing for the third year, with 2016 reaching an all-time high. According to the Centers for Disease Control and data analysis by Backgroundchecks.org, here are the ten most sexually diseased states in America:

There was a time in America when a physician had just two or three young adult patients with sexually transmitted diseases. In 2013 that number has become two or three dozen and is increasing as “hooking up” turns out to be a deadly sexual game.

NEW YORK The future of vaccines, infectious disease experts say, is teenagers. Parents are used to the idea of their babies getting up to 20 vaccinations by age 2 to prevent polio, measles, chickenpox and other diseases transmitted by coughing. But pharmaceutical companies are inventing new vaccines against diseases usually transmitted by sex, drug use, foreign travel or living in dormitories or barracks. Half a dozen are now in the long and tangled medico-regulatory pipeline between the petri dish and the pediatrician's syringe. "Adolescent vaccines are the next wave," Michael Decker, vice president for scientific affairs at the vaccine subsidiary...