Posted on 08/29/2018 10:42:13 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
In a disturbing national trend, the number of three common sexually transmitted diseases hit a record high last year, with nearly 2.3 million cases reported in the U.S. – eclipsing the record set in 2016 by more than 200,000 cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Comparing data from 2013 with 2017's preliminary data showed "steep, sustained increases" in reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, the CDC said, also warning that gonorrhea is showing signs of becoming resistant to the antibiotics used to treat it.
"We are sliding backward," Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, said in a statement. "It is evident the systems that identify, treat, and ultimately prevent STDs are strained to near-breaking point."
The findings were released Tuesday at the National STD Prevention Conference in Washington, D.C.
Along with dramatic increases in syphilis cases (up 76 percent from 2013) and chlamydia cases (a 45 percent increase among girls and women 15 to 24 years old), CDC officials said they are concerned about a spike in gonorrhea. The number of cases went up 67 percent overall but nearly doubled in men, from 169,130 cases in 2013 to 322,169 cases in 2017.
The disease also has spread among women for the third year in a row and went from 197,499 cases reported in 2013 to 232,587 cases in 2017, according to a CDC press release.
Though STDs are usually treated with antibiotics, "most cases go undiagnosed and untreated," the CDC said. The agency noted earlier studies have pointed to a range of factors that could be tied to STD increases, "including socioeconomic factors like poverty, stigma, and discrimination; and drug use."
Meanwhile, researchers are worried about the looming threat of an "untreatable" form of gonorrhea that is evolving over time in the U.S., even as an antibiotic-resistant strain has emerged overseas.
New CDC findings show the share of gonorrhea samples that are resistant to azithromycin – prescribed for the disease to stave off its resistance to the separate antibiotic ceftriaxone – has quadrupled, from 1 percent in 2013 to more than 4 percent in 2017.
"We expect gonorrhea will eventually wear down our last highly effective antibiotic, and additional treatment options are urgently needed," Dr. Gail Bolan, director of the CDC's Division of STD Prevention, said in a statement. "We can't let our defenses down – we must continue reinforcing efforts to rapidly detect and prevent resistance as long as possible."
Yes, thank you.
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"Along with dramatic increases in syphilis cases (up 76 percent from 2013)
and chlamydia cases (a 45 percent increase among girls and women 15 to 24 years old),
CDC officials said they are concerned about a spike in gonorrhea.
The number of cases went up 67 percent overall but nearly doubled in men, from 169,130 cases in 2013 to 322,169 cases in 2017."
"New CDC findings show the share of gonorrhea samples that are resistant to azithromycin
– prescribed for the disease to stave off its resistance to the separate antibiotic ceftriaxone
– has quadrupled, from 1 percent in 2013 to more than 4 percent in 2017."
Liberals and their Marxist, Socialist philosophy along with their imported illegals have caused this epidemic, IMO. STDs aren’t the only diseases these people have foisted upon this country along with the crime.
My mother said it would make me turn to stone. That must be so, because I started getting hard.
Chlamydia is UP % wise among 15 year olds???!! That is heartbreaking. We thought spin the bottle was daring & risqué at that age......
No doubt about it - there is definitely a direct proportion of increased illegal immigration and an increase of communicable diseases.
The illegals do not have vaccinations / immunizations in there life time due to lack of healthcare from their home countries and their on-the-road life styles. (Not necessarily their fault but, nonetheless it is what it is).
I feel sorry for the US children exposed to all these non-documented children AND mad as hell at our stupid liberal fellow citizens that are so blind as to not see the correlation. Maybe once their children become infected they will see the light.
I still remember the butterflies of my First Kiss. School Dance. A boy had a crush on me for-ever and made his move after a slow dance. I was 15. I thought I was going to DIE of happiness! And that’s as FAR as it went!
Life for kids these days is SO complex, heartbreaking and dangerous to their hearts, minds, bodies and souls.
And that’s a d@mn shame. :(
Yes the unity family is so bad and promiscuity before marriage is so good and worthwhile, and then add to that how marriage is being forsaken more for the single life or delayed to a later age, more than before; and you have more single marriage-age folks out there and active in more promiscuos society. And to that some impacts on the whole from legal and illegal immigration as well as the drug culture and you have a a part of the growth in antibiotic resistance as well. It all we likely get worse still before it gets better.
Spray Lysol on your monitor, mouse and keyboard.
Local DC news just had a story about how Montgomery County high schools, and maybe some middle schools, will now be giving out rubbers, ostensibly because of this very problem.
And wash my ‘mouse” hand and my . . . uh . . . free hand?
for those who might be considering relocating their households at some future time, maps:
https://www.livescience.com/48100-sexually-transmitted-infections-50-states-map.html
Hey! Let’s all wait until married to have sex , and then avoid adultery. Divorce only for the most serious of reasons.
It almost as if God has our best interests in Mind.
Do rubbers stop genital warts or crabs/lice or...
LOL!!!
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I think those are *computer* viruses.
I haven’t seen syphilis since starting in health care in 1980.
In the last week I have diagnosed two cases.
Good to know! *SHUDDER*
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