Posted on 10/10/2004 4:47:01 PM PDT by LouAvul
They might be teaching sex education in the schools, but it's obvious folks are flunking the practical application. Sexually transmitted diseases — and particularly chlamydia and gonorrhea — have spiked dramatically in five area counties, including Stanislaus.
It's gotten so bad that health officials from the counties will ask state officials and possibly the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to send investigators who can get to the core of the problem.
The numbers don't lie, even if they might represent only a fraction of the truth.
In Stanislaus County alone, the number of reported cases of gonorrhea in 2004 will likely double to more than 400 compared to a year ago, and more than four times the 25-year low of 135 in 1999.
The numbers, health officials say, are also rising in Merced, Madera, San Benito and Santa Clara counties. The epidemic caught the eye of state officials, who recently brought health officials from those counties together to determine possible links.
This much they know, and it's consistent with data from elsewhere in the state: the majority of the cases reported involve 15- to 29-year-olds, and most are white or Latino, although African-Americans have the highest rate among any single race.
(Excerpt) Read more at modbee.com ...
The condoms on cucumbers visual aid teaching didn't work?
Just wondering...did there happen to be large Kerry /Edwards rallies in these areas immediately prior to the outbreak?
Margaret Sanger is grinning.
I guess they firgure they`re losing their chance to screw the country, so they`re taking it out on each other.
Well, at least the Cackling Cows of Court TV can’t blame this one on Scott Peterson.
This is definitely a CIA plot. OK. Where's my Nobel prize?
This is definitely a CIA plot. OK. Where's my Nobel prize?
Don't some of these diseases make one sterile?
bttt
we can only hope...
It must be President Bush's fault.
Probably the worst-educated counties in the state. Even if they taught safe sex in school up there, it wouldn't have much effect. No one goes to school. They're all out in the fields. I know that sounds condescending, but that's the way it is.
"Yeah, I probably should have used a condom, but then I thought, 'When am I ever going to be back in Haiti?'"
What's the old Bob Dylan song----
"VD is for everybody....."
I'd view living in California as a worse problem than most kinds of VD...
Why of course, isn't VD spread by a lack of federal funding?
Hilarious
Isn't that in the 909? the 909 is dirtty dirrtyyyy dirrrrrty!!!!
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