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Alaska fighting uphill battle to reduce gonorrhea rate
Anchorage Daily News ^ | November 26th, 2010 | LISA DEMER

Posted on 11/27/2010 8:57:44 AM PST by skeptoid

An outbreak of gonorrhea across Alaska that began in 2009 is continuing this year, and health officials say they are trying new ways to curb it.

Between 2008 and 2009, the number of gonorrhea cases in Alaska rose an alarming 69 percent, according to a new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska
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It's actually a success story!

SNIP . . .Hopefully, the high numbers now are more of a success story in that people are coming in and getting tested. Though I am surprised the numbers haven't declined," said Susan Jones, the state's HIV/STD program manager. "It's this continuing rise in numbers that we haven't been able to get under control." . . .

SNIP . . . Alaska's rate is about 144 reported cases per 100,000 people, compared with a national average of 99 cases per 100,000. Between 2000 and 2008, Alaska had an average rate of 85 cases per 100,000 people. . . SNIP . . . For Alaska Native women, the rate was 656 per 100,000. . .

1 posted on 11/27/2010 8:57:46 AM PST by skeptoid
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To: skeptoid
An identified locus:


2 posted on 11/27/2010 9:00:10 AM PST by JRios1968 (What is the difference between 0bama and his dog, Bo? Bo has papers.)
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To: skeptoid

Murkowski will personally put a “beanie on your weenie” and fight STD’s for all Alaskans! That’s why they hired her!


3 posted on 11/27/2010 9:00:52 AM PST by albie
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To: skeptoid

They must be rubbing more than just noses up there...


4 posted on 11/27/2010 9:03:53 AM PST by AndrewB (FUBO)
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To: skeptoid

I guess the natives are restless ... and horny


5 posted on 11/27/2010 9:04:17 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Palin 2012: don't retreat, just reload)
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To: skeptoid
Between 2008 and 2009, the number of gonorrhea cases in Alaska rose an alarming 69 percent

That's when all the news reporters came to the state, trying to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin.
6 posted on 11/27/2010 9:04:47 AM PST by VisualizeSmallerGovernment
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To: albie

VD is nothing to clap about.


7 posted on 11/27/2010 9:10:14 AM PST by thethirddegree
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To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment

Now that you mention it . . . ..


8 posted on 11/27/2010 9:10:20 AM PST by skeptoid (The Road to Serfdom is being paved by RINOS)
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To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment

I’m sure that somehow the VD rates in Alaska are the fault of Sarah Palin. I’m sure she cut VD treatment funding or otherwise somehow did something which failed to show compassion for VD sufferers.


9 posted on 11/27/2010 9:11:03 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: skeptoid

Has Senator Murkowski ever been checked out? Rumor has it she’s been screwing Alaska for years!


10 posted on 11/27/2010 9:12:39 AM PST by Tucker39
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To: skeptoid
Lisa's fault.


11 posted on 11/27/2010 9:16:46 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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"Lisa's fault."

No, a face like that could CURE all STDs!

12 posted on 11/27/2010 9:17:35 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: AndrewB
I know of one village, they once had their own VD bus that ran twice a week to the clinic 50 miles away. The bus driver told me a story about finding this stabbed Indian frozen to the the road with his blood. He and the kids on the bus loaded him up and took this guy to the clinic too.

Some villages really suffer from child abuse, some not so much. In the bad ones, the 11 year olds are having babies, all kinds of genetic problems, and the kids are all having sex with their immediate family members & relatives;; sad places at times. No wonder the VD rate is high.

The Indians claim it all started when their kids were removed (to Americanize them)from the villages in 1940's. The boarding schools were run by White Peds & and there was unreal sex abuse; some truth to it too. Today in villages you have 40 & 50 year old members (who were abused as kids) now preying on the 8-10 year olds in the village. Indians can't make it stop and the leadership really try to solve that social problem. They just need to start feeding the abusers to the bear.

Then in some villages, these related problems are practically non-existent.I've seen villages that were located close to urban areas and there was an economy, so the Indians all had jobs and careers. Not near the problems in those villages.

13 posted on 11/27/2010 9:21:09 AM PST by Eska
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To: skeptoid; MotleyGirl70; Cagey; Mr. Brightside; earlJam; Rb ver. 2.0; lesser_satan; Taffini; jdm; ...

KRAMER: Well, I got gonorrhea.

ELAINE: That seems about right.

KRAMER: That’s what they gave me.

GEORGE: They? The Government?


14 posted on 11/27/2010 9:28:12 AM PST by Gamecock (New TSA Slogans: 1. If We DonÂ’t Get Off, You DonÂ’t Get On 2. We Love Your Fly and It Shows)
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They must be rubbing more than just noses up there...

Must be.
If you stick to rubbing noses, the worst you can get is 'sniffilis'.

15 posted on 11/27/2010 9:30:27 AM PST by skeptoid (The Road to Serfdom is being paved by RINOS)
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To: skeptoid

Well we know for sure that there is at least one case of Gonnorhea lectum in Alaska.


16 posted on 11/27/2010 9:31:48 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (I'd open it myself but I don't have any thumbs.)
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To: skeptoid
It's too bad that VD is a mystery disease, and we have no idea how it is transmitted, or we could tell people to quit doing whatever was vectoring the disease.

But just like the cause of Sudden Jihad Syndrome, or how Whoopi Goldberg got into show business, we will never know...


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

17 posted on 11/27/2010 9:40:29 AM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment

“That’s when all the news reporters came to the state, trying to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin.”

In that one sentence, you made more sense than the entire article - which, btw - NEVER even got close to wondering “why the sudden spike?”

If sexual abuse is a cultural...thing...ugh, I’m just too sad to post any more on this.


18 posted on 11/27/2010 9:41:40 AM PST by spankalib
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To: JRios1968

ROTFLMAO!!!!!


19 posted on 11/27/2010 9:44:53 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Gamecock

LOL!


20 posted on 11/27/2010 9:53:19 AM PST by Cagey
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