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Gonorrhea Rate Has Shot Up In California ("especially among gay and bisexual men")
California HealthLine ^ | April 19, 2016 | Barbara Feder Ostrov

Posted on 04/20/2016 3:24:48 AM PDT by reaganaut1

Rates of gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease, are rising sharply in California, especially among gay and bisexual men, according to new state health data.

The gonorrhea rate among California men aged 15 to 44 shot up 54 percent between 2011 and 2014, according to recently released data from the California Department of Public Health. Among women in the same age group, it rose 35 percent.

An average of 34,000 gonorrhea cases among 15-to-44 year-olds was reported in California each year between 2012 and 2014, most of them among men.

By contrast, the national gonorrhea rate, calculated slightly differently than California’s, rose about 15 percent among men aged 15-44 between 2010 and 2013, the latest available data for that group.

Public health experts say the reasons for gonorrhea’s resurgence in California are complex. It may reflect better screening, which detects cases that would not have been found previously.

Other possible explanations include lower condom use among young people and the rise of Tinder and other “hookup” apps that promote multiple sex partners. But experts say there’s not enough data to pin the rising gonorrhea rates on any one cause.

Clinicians say they are frustrated they haven’t made more headway in controlling the disease.

“We have great testing, [and the] medications are highly effective,” said Dr. Heidi Bauer, chief of the Sexually Transmitted Disease Control Branch of the California Department of Public Health. “This should not be an ongoing health problem. We should be able to do a much better job.”

The disease is continuing to spread in part because some people do not notify their partners so they can be treated, and local public health workers don’t always have the resources to track down and inform them, Bauer said.

(Excerpt) Read more at californiahealthline.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: fdrq; gonorrhea; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; outbreak; perverts; publichealth; riskybehavior; std
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A sensible nation would not promote unhealthy perversion by recognizing such a thing as "gay marriage".
1 posted on 04/20/2016 3:24:49 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

The “US” Congress LOVES contagious, uncurable, diseases
and like the White Mosque, is VERY EAGER to bring more
into the USA with terrorists.
Watch for the “US” Congress to make sure this blood
(and other infected blood) goes directly into the US pool.


2 posted on 04/20/2016 3:29:22 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: reaganaut1

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.


3 posted on 04/20/2016 3:29:48 AM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 15 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: reaganaut1

It ain’t just Gonorrhea!!!!!!

Thank GOD for a 33 year monogamous marriage. And thank GOD for the wife He gave me.

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4 posted on 04/20/2016 3:37:11 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: reaganaut1

this is all so gay


5 posted on 04/20/2016 3:39:36 AM PDT by ghosthost
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To: reaganaut1
The CDC website says that male perverts,representing less than 1% of the nation's population,account for about two-thirds of its syphilis cases.
6 posted on 04/20/2016 3:40:35 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: reaganaut1

HIV, AIDs. sTDs are all punishments from God for sexually deviant behavior but the athesit LGBT whoremongers will never acknowledge it.


7 posted on 04/20/2016 4:01:22 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: reaganaut1

Well, now a huge portion of our taxes will go towards finding a cure for these things.


8 posted on 04/20/2016 4:03:46 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Calling Obama a POS is a major insult to S.)
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To: reaganaut1

I’m shocked! No, really. I’m shocked there was room to get worse.


9 posted on 04/20/2016 4:03:49 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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“We have great testing, [and the] medications are highly effective,” said Dr. Heidi Bauer, chief of the Sexually Transmitted Disease Control Branch of the California Department of Public Health. “This should not be an ongoing health problem. We should be able to do a much better job.”

Not for much longer:

Gonorrhea has progressively developed resistance to the antibiotic drugs prescribed to treat it. Following the spread of gonococcal fluoroquinolone resistance, the cephalosporin antibiotics have been the foundation of recommended treatment for gonorrhea. The emergence of cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea would significantly complicate the ability of providers to treat gonorrhea successfully, since we have few antibiotic options left that are simple, well-studied, well-tolerated and highly effective.

The promiscuous and unprotected activity that causes the spread of STDs and "unintended" pregnancy is helping Neisseria gonorrhoeae develop antibiotic resistance.

Gonorrhea can cause infertility, and the causative bacteria can evade the immune system for years, making it highly unlikely to overcome an infection without antibiotics.

It probably won't happen for young people to decide en masse to remain celibate until marriage, but we sure can do a better job of discouraging outright promiscuity.

10 posted on 04/20/2016 4:04:12 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: jimfree

Maybe the sexual deviants should stop sitting on tractor seats.


11 posted on 04/20/2016 4:04:35 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Calling Obama a POS is a major insult to S.)
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Bacteria and viruses have learned to respect Normosexual White Male Privilege.

Who ever would have thought?

12 posted on 04/20/2016 4:05:09 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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“The disease is continuing to spread in part because some people do not notify their partners”

That’s a little harsh. I mean, how do you notify people when you don’t even know their names?


13 posted on 04/20/2016 4:29:15 AM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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Something Rush said yesterday:

The left can only survive and prosper when they have bullied everybody into tolerating whatever behavior they want to engage in — and good behavior doesn’t require any tolerance. So we’re talking about aberrant behavior to begin with. {Rush Limbaugh}


14 posted on 04/20/2016 4:34:30 AM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: beef

Just place a sign on the other side of the partition above the Glory Hole:

“Participants Must State Name Before Entering”


15 posted on 04/20/2016 4:35:14 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Noah: 'When the animals began to pair up by specie and stand in line, I really took notice.')
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To: reaganaut1

Play stupid games,

Win stupid prizes.


16 posted on 04/20/2016 4:39:38 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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Great time to open women’s restrooms to these perverts.


17 posted on 04/20/2016 4:45:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: reaganaut1

Maybe they can get Christian bakers to bake them cakes with “Congratulations on your new venereal disease” on them.


18 posted on 04/20/2016 4:45:54 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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HIV, AIDs. sTDs are all punishments from God for sexually deviant behavior

STD rates are very low for lesbians. God must love lesbian behavior.

19 posted on 04/20/2016 4:50:28 AM PDT by Poison Pill
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Filthy Disease Ridden Queers...
20 posted on 04/20/2016 4:52:52 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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