Posted on 02/12/2023 11:51:02 AM PST by grundle
Edited on 02/12/2023 11:52:28 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
"This seems like something that should have happened a hundred years ago, not last year," the state's former health officer said.
JACKSON, Miss. — The number of babies in Mississippi being treated for congenital syphilis has jumped by more than 900% over five years, uprooting the progress the nation’s poorest state had made in nearly quashing what experts say is an avoidable public health crisis. The rise in cases has placed newborns at further risk of life-threatening harm in a state that’s already home to the nation’s worst infant mortality rate.
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Black newborns accounted for 70% of the state’s congenital syphilis cases, despite making up about 42% of the state’s live births that year.
I remember as a kid in school our health teacher was bragging that there was no VD in our area as there were no condom machines anywhere within 30 miles.
15 years later quite a few people I worked with came down with VD. They could not pick up a skank at an Oklahoma line bar or University bar without catching something.
As Tim Allen told his son on Home Improvement
Always keep your car in the garage
(condoms)
Mayor Lumumba is an incompetent idiot.
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