Posted on 11/23/2015 10:23:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The news in this year's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on sexually transmitted diseases is not good.
The number of cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea in the United States increased between 2013 and 2014, after being on the decline for several years. Cases of syphilis, which have been on the rise for the last decade, shot up in 2014.
Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis are the three most common STDs in the United States that are also notifiable, meaning health departments are required to report new cases to the CDC. (HIV and shigella are also notifiable STDs.)
Chlamydia is the most common and can damage a woman's reproductive system. The report found that in 2014 there were more than 1.4 million cases of chlamydia, or about 456 for every 100,000 people. There are about 350,000 cases (or 111 for every 100,000 people) of gonorrhea, which causes infections. And there are nearly 20,000 cases (six for every 100,000 people) of syphilis, which if left untreated can lead to serious complications, including blindness.
All three are curable with medication and you can decrease your chances of getting them by practicing safe sex. These numbers represent an increase in chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis cases of 2.8%, 5.1% and 15.1%, respectively, between 2013 and 2014.
"This is a bare minimum of the number of infections occurring in the U.S.," said Dr. Gail Bolan, director of CDC's Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, and lead author of the report, which was released on Tuesday.
There could be many cases that went undiagnosed because the infections did not cause symptoms, which is typical of chlamydia and gonorrhea, and because people did not have access to health care or their providers did not test them, Bolan said.
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That’s because the women are dirty. Good Grief!!
I was told last week being LGBTWHATEVER was normal. Of course, the creature that said this is very angry and mental.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan: Defining deviancy downward. Way, way downward.
The gays are to blame because of their refusal to close their bathhouses once the virus was discovered. They were addicted to their lifestyle.
Among HOMOSEXUALS. There, fixed it.
Reagan “didn’t do enough”. The surgeon general advising men not to sodomize each other’s rectum was apparently ‘bad advice’ according to them.
Meanwhile billions of dollars later, there still is no cure. What was it they wanted Reagan to do?
I thought that was something Barack Obama had done in a limo.
Charlie Sheen has ALL of them and then some!!
The “no access to healthcare” lie must be exposed and rejected. EVERYONE has access to healthcare - I don’t care WHO you are.
No clinic or ER is turning people away.
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