Posted on 11/17/2009 1:55:25 PM PST by Mount Athos
Washington, D.C., had the dubious distinction of beating all 50 states to post the highest rates in the nation for the sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.
The District of Columbia had a Chlamydia rate of 1,177 cases per 100,000 people--almost three times the rate of its neighbors, Virginia (405) and Maryland (439).
Mississippi was a distant second, at 728 cases per 100,000 people.
By comparison, California’s rate was 407 cases per 100,000; New York came in at 458; New Mexico at 470; Utah at 377 and Maine’s rate was a mere 198 per 100,000.
For gonorrhea, D.C.’s rate was 451.5 cases per 100,000--almost twice that of second-ranking Mississippi (256.8); more than three times the rate of its neighbors Virginia (134) and Maryland (118); more than 13 times the rate of Oregon (32.5) and more than 25 times the rate of Utah (18).
Other state rates for gonorrhea include: 160.9 for Illinois; 134 for Texas and 88.7 for New York.
D.C.’s nation-leading syphilis rate of 24.8 cases (including both primary and secondary syphilis) per 100,000 dwarfed second-place Louisiana's 16.5 per 100,000 rate and third-place Alabama’s rate of 9.7 per 100,000. It and was nearly four times the rate of Maryland (6.7).
By comparison, the syphilis rate was 6.3 per 100,000 for New York; 6.0 for California; 4.3 for Illinois; 3.4 for Virginia and 0.05 for Iowa.
The CDC report is based on 2007 surveillance statistics, updated in 2008 and released Monday.
The words “insert” and “Barney Frank” in the same sentence only bring censored thoughts to mind.....
The words “insert” and “Barney Frank” in the same sentence only bring censored thoughts to mind.....
So I was thinking to myself, “Hey, when am I ever going to be in DC again?”....so I took the rubber off and.....
How’s all that ‘no consequences’ sex working out for people.. oh wait, never mind.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Large number of welfare recipients?
Hooray for Washington, D.C.! Our founding father and first president would be proud!
Ah knew, ah say, ah knew that mah intuhmittent dementia was connected with all those wuhking guhls ah was with! /foghorn leghorn voice.
See post #28
Lets not give the House and the Senate any excuses.
There number one... there number one
I thought Baltimore was the capital of syphilis.
I don’t want to insert anything of Barney Frank’s....
“highest rates of obesity....and poverty.”
Funny, since the 1 is usually mutually exclusive of the other.
“I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where’s Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.”
You have to be kidding me. Are you serious?
Condoms really help alot, don’t they?
So many democRATS running around unleashed.
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