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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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To: NonValueAdded

Years ago I saw this bumper sticker...

“In Alaska your girlfriend never leaves, you just lose your turn.”


21 posted on 11/27/2010 10:07:30 AM PST by LFOD (Presently - Back in Dixie)
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To: Eska

In a former life I used to fly into remote villages in Alaska to haul supplies. On one of these trips I was talking to one of the ground guys, he said that in this village the VD rate was well over 50%. This was a number of years ago.


22 posted on 11/27/2010 10:28:52 AM PST by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: The Comedian
...how Whoopi Goldberg got into show business

She obviously had someone's favorite fantasy all figured out.


23 posted on 11/27/2010 10:39:31 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: skeptoid

My bet is that if you superimpose a map of the gonorrhea infections over a map of newly imported Section 8 housing/welfare recipients, they will be an identical match.


24 posted on 11/27/2010 10:40:39 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The government cancer has metastasized.)
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To: Disambiguator

I just threw up.


25 posted on 11/27/2010 10:58:22 AM PST by InternetTuffGuy
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To: InternetTuffGuy
I just threw up.

You're not so Tuff after all.

:^)

26 posted on 11/27/2010 11:07:32 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator
Thanks a steaming pile of kisses for that image, you monster.


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

27 posted on 11/27/2010 11:16:47 AM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: The Comedian

It could have been Helen Thomas in a bathtub full of milk!

The mind reels.

:^)


28 posted on 11/27/2010 11:47:40 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: skeptoid

All them liberal reporters trying to get something on Palin brought something with them.


29 posted on 11/27/2010 11:48:47 AM PST by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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