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‘Out of control’: rise in STDs, including 26% syphilis spike, sparks US alarm
Associated Press ^ | September 19, 2022

Posted on 09/20/2022 9:36:48 AM PDT by karpov

Sharply rising cases of some sexually transmitted diseases, including a 26% rise in new syphilis infections reported last year, are prompting US health officials to call for new prevention and treatment efforts.

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Infections rates for some STDs, including gonorrhea and syphilis, have been rising for years. Last year the rate of syphilis cases reached its highest since 1991 and the total number of cases hit its highest since 1948. HIV cases are also on the rise, up 16% last year.

An international outbreak of monkeypox has further highlighted the nation’s worsening problem with diseases spread mostly through sex.

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Officials are working on new approaches to the problem, such as home-test kits for some STDs that will make it easier for people to learn they are infected and to take steps to prevent spreading it to others, Mena said.

Another expert said a core part of any effort must work to increase the use of condoms.

“It’s pretty simple. More sexually transmitted infections occur when people are having more unprotected sex,” said Mike Saag, an infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Syphilis is a bacterial disease that surfaces as genital sores but can ultimately lead to severe symptoms and death if left untreated. New syphilis infections plummeted in the US starting in the 1940s when antibiotics became widely available. They fell to their lowest ever by 1998, when fewer than 7,000 new cases were reported nationwide. The CDC was so encouraged by the progress it launched a plan to eliminate syphilis in the US.

But, by 2002, cases began rising again, largely among gay and bisexual men, and they kept going. In late 2013, CDC ended its elimination campaign in the face of limited funding and escalating cases, which that year surpassed 17,000.

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


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To: karpov

Don’t let all of the statistical noise in the article distract you. This increase in STD rates is driven almost exclusively by 2% of the population.


21 posted on 09/20/2022 9:56:04 AM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: GOPJ
You're leaving out the Biden family sex addict types... you know, all that elite 'private school' rape room training of our 'betters'.

I thought I did mention queers.

22 posted on 09/20/2022 9:56:43 AM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: Reddy
Anyone having sex with strangers these days is an idiot.

And anyone having sex with someone who is having sex with strangers is an idiot by proxy.

23 posted on 09/20/2022 9:59:49 AM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: George from New England

If the “vaccine” were spreading monkeypox, syphilis, or gonorrhea, the outbreak would be at the site of the injection.

Monkeypox, syphilis, and gonorrhea generally sores appear on and around the patient’s anus, genitals, and mouth.

Plenty of things wrong with the Trump/Fauci/Biden synthetic mRNA experiment, but it’s not directly spreading VD. It might be making promiscuous homosexuals more susceptible, but the data available here cannot answer that question.


24 posted on 09/20/2022 10:01:07 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: fwdude

That strategy is like trying to drive your car by only using the rear view mirror for navigation.
**************

Rear view: pun intended.


25 posted on 09/20/2022 10:02:45 AM PDT by BarbM (Men who look at porn are impotent to God.)
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To: karpov

Anytime government affirms or subsidizes bad behavior, you are going to get a lot more of the putrid fruit of that behavior.


26 posted on 09/20/2022 10:04:17 AM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

The article leaves out the very probably possibility that the treatments of these increased diseases risks massive drug resistance in these pathogens. It’s not as la-dee-da as they pose it.


27 posted on 09/20/2022 10:06:26 AM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: fwdude
That strategy is like trying to drive your car by only using the rear view mirror for navigation.

ISWYDT.

28 posted on 09/20/2022 10:06:35 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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29 posted on 09/20/2022 10:17:11 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: fwdude

Hunter and his sister and most of the DC ‘elite’ are heterosexuals...

Didn’t Hunter’s sister say she showered with the ‘big guy’? You know, in the diary ‘intelligence’ said was Russian disinformation? Or was that Hunter’s laptop they were lying about?


30 posted on 09/20/2022 10:19:50 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Elites" benefit from illegals - let the 'elites' pay the costs for a broken border.,)
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To: karpov
We need a Czar to oversee the elimination of this disease. We need Kamala! She's doing a bang-up job on the border and all we need is to do is lockdown for two weeks to flatten the curve. Yesiree, that'll do it.
31 posted on 09/20/2022 10:20:12 AM PDT by twoputt
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To: karpov
Old joke.

Coach, addressing assembled football players: "Guys, the trainer tells me the team has picked up six cases of syphilis this week."
Player: "That's great!"
Coach: "Great?"
Player: "Yeah. I'm sick of Gatorade."

32 posted on 09/20/2022 10:23:47 AM PDT by Pilsner
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To: karpov

We should expect a different result with millions of aliens entering our country? With millions of citizens sleeping on concrete in the cities? With drag queens coming out of our ears? With a large section of the population who are sleeping with the same sex? With guys pretending to be women and women who are pretending to be men? What the hell should be expected but more disease?


33 posted on 09/20/2022 12:43:13 PM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Looks like the 6 foot rule and vote by mail is in effect this November.


34 posted on 09/20/2022 2:37:37 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: mosaicwolf

I already applied for my mail in ballot. 65 and over in Indiana, you’re good to go.


35 posted on 09/20/2022 2:41:30 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: karpov; nickcarraway

Update from Texas...

https://www.foxnews.com/health/houston-health-officials-report-syphilis-outbreak-128-spike-cases-among-women

What’s missing from the article: Any mention of contact tracing.


36 posted on 07/16/2023 4:01:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: mewzilla
Apparently they call it partner notification now, from last fall...

Accelerated partner therapy should be part of the suite of contact tracing options

37 posted on 07/16/2023 4:06:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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