Posted on 11/13/2007 6:53:48 PM PST by 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.
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Reason #3,249 not to sleep around town.
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.
i read a while ago that
80% of women over 50 years of age
have an std.
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.
How much of it is coming from south of the border
I’m so glad I’m not single anymore/”shudder”
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?
which country(s)?
That’s why I’ve always told my children that abstinence works every time it’s tried!!
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.”
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'....
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.
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.
How was it transmitted between those years when I was a kid and 10 years ago?
“Its curious, that until recently, within the last 10 years or so, chlamydia wasnt 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.
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