And this"
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 ...
"send investigators who can get to the core of the problem"
Santa Clara County is certainly not among the worst educated in the state. Perhaps the others. The problem here isn't race, education or poverty levels. The problem is uncontrollable promiscuity.
Ahhhhhhh, the joy of "hooking up"
See post 3. I'm guessing yes.
Hilarious, even though the statistics aren't.
Yep, both of them can.
"...one theory states its spread could follow a pattern of migration among younger farm workers who arrive in the Central Valley and work their way up in to Oregon..."
"...They found the majority of the cases involved white women who were undereducated and unemployed and lacked health insurance..."
Prostitution was not mentioned but if you read between the lines...
If people would quit acting like dogs roaming the neighborhood looking for another dog to mate with, we wouldn't be having this STD problem.
Couldn't happen to a better group of people.
Yes --- but that's nature's way of taking care of a certain problem. The sexually active teens here --- and there are many become lifelong taxpayer burdents. There is an epidemic here of chlamydia in the high schools --- the same one that have day-cares on their campuses. That's a very good thing for taxpayers.
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.
low of 135 x 4 = 540
"will likely double to more than 400"
Do I figure wrong?
Poor choice of words. I would have used "root".
Good catch. We'll put you on the Mad Maxine Waters mailing list. ;-)
Okay, are they really all out in the fields?
I don't know about Baltimore, but there was an article here last week that Palm Springs has a higher rate (epidimic) of Syphilis than San Francisco.
The lads just aren't scared anymore....back to those nice little anonymous unprotected "encounters".
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