U.S. sets record in sexual disease cases-(superbug California,Hawaii,South,Midwest.)

ap ^ | 11/13/07 | By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer

[Flavius]

ATLANTA - More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year — the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they think better and more intensive screening accounts for much of the increase, but added that chlamydia was not the only sexually transmitted disease on the rise.

Gonorrhea rates are jumping again after hitting a record low, and an increasing number of cases are caused by a "superbug" version resistant to common antibiotics.

[Flavius]

superbug California and Hawaii, South,parts of the Midwest.

[Santa Fe_Conservative]

Reason #3,249 not to sleep around town.

[TexGuy]

[ricks_place]

[Westlander]

[Taxbilly]

We can’t fight this superbug when Bush has all of out National Guard troops in Iraq. They must return home to teach us how to but condoms on cucumbers, for the children.

[ken21]

i read a while ago that

80% of women over 50 years of age

have an std.

[DBrow]

While the moral implications are serious, some of the “increase” comes from new, quick, and cheap diagnostics and not from a real increase. Chlamidia is, or used to be, difficult to diagnose and is sometimes symptomless or silent.

It’s also suspected that condoms are not that good against male-female transmission (some results say it is, some not- more work needed), and of course condoms don’t work in female-female transmission.

So telling kids that condoms will keep them safe, and same-sex exploration is natural, could be a causative factor in the increased report frequency.

[YellowRoseofTx]

superbug California, South, parts of the Midwest.

How much of it is coming from south of the border

[PROCON]

I’m so glad I’m not single anymore/”shudder”

[Santa Fe_Conservative]

and of course condoms don’t work in female-female transmission.

Huh? They don't...??? ;)

[DBrow]

The diseases are different and of course there’s HIV, but things have improved tremendously compared to 60 years ago.

Or, how would you liked dating in Europe during the virtual epidemic of syphilis, with penicillin not even a gleam in the petri dish’s eye?

[Fitzcarraldo]

which country(s)?

[PROCON]

That’s why I’ve always told my children that abstinence works every time it’s tried!!

[ken21]

u.s.

here’s one example, but not the one that i read several months ago:

http://homepage.mac.com/georgia.nesmith/iblog/C191060534/E1307881895/index.html

“by age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection.”

[ApplegateRanch]

It’s also suspected that condoms are not that good against male-female transmission (some results say it is, some not- more work needed), and of course condoms don’t work in female-female transmission.

What's a boy to do?!?

Does that mean that the horny little dudes with tired wrists should stick to sheep, until marriage?

Condoms aren't reliable (DUH!); milk bottles are almost non-existent anymore; vacuum cleaners regularly cause trips to the ER; teachers have a habit of drawing suspicion; girls really DO have 'cooties'....

[Secret Agent Man]

I read a story the other day from the UK that also was stating there has a been a big rise in chlamydia cases in the UK too. Apparently they are very worried about it over there, from the standpoint that not many gals know they have it nad are worried about sterilization from it.

[gidget7]

While I have no doubt there is some increase, that study is crap. Every time I hear it spoken of, it’s a feminist who says it, and it’s a clearly venomous rant about how, “It comes from MEN! they are always to blame.

It is also being hyped by pharmaceuticals who want to promote Cardicil, even though it only protects against a couple of strains, and has killed quite a few young women now.

It’s curious, that until recently, within the last 10 years or so, chlamydia wasn’t a sexually transmitted disease. Curious if you ask me.

[gnarledmaw]

"It’s curious, that until recently, within the last 10 years or so, chlamydia wasn’t a sexually transmitted disease."

How was it transmitted between those years when I was a kid and 10 years ago?

[bigred41]

“It’s curious, that until recently, within the last 10 years or so, chlamydia wasn’t a sexually transmitted disease.”
How was it transmitted between those years when I was a kid and 10 years ago?

You don’t need sexual contact to spread chlamydia. You just need contact. SO, if people don’t wash well or enough they can spread that disease just like any other.