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STI Rates Spike ‘Significantly’ in NYC, Panicked Officials Ramp up Testing
New York Post ^ | April 3, 2023 | Andrew Court

Posted on 04/03/2023 12:37:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) spiked significantly across the Big Apple following the lifting of lockdown restrictions, new data from the New York City Health Department reveals.

The agency’s stats show chlamydia cases rose 9% between 2020 and 2021, while the number of females diagnosed with primary and secondary syphilis surged by 28.7%.

The “significant” rise in infections has prompted public officials to plead with raunchy residents to urgently get tested to stop further spread. Some centers are now repurposing lab equipment used for COVID tests to screen for chlamydia and gonorrhea, the department said in a press release regarding the rise in infections.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: chlamydia; covid; gonorrhea; nastygerms; sexbooboos; std; sti; syphilis; vd
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Where is Bill Clinton? We need to shut down the vector.
1 posted on 04/03/2023 12:37:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

When did we switch to STI vs. STD?


2 posted on 04/03/2023 12:39:40 PM PDT by PGR88
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Our new foreign visitors are spreading their love.


3 posted on 04/03/2023 12:39:50 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: PGR88

it has been a while... more descriptive in that it is not a disease, but that you get it from someone else...

the gift that keeps on giving...

i believe it was the early 80s... or 90s


4 posted on 04/03/2023 12:41:27 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: nickcarraway

Whup! The Left has done another of its famous Name Change Switcheroos.


5 posted on 04/03/2023 12:42:22 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: teeman8r

An infection is not a disease?


6 posted on 04/03/2023 12:44:05 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: JonPreston

There’s plenty of truth to that.


7 posted on 04/03/2023 12:44:59 PM PDT by Pelham (Joe Biden, Brain of the American Left)
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To: gitmo

one burns more when you pee.


8 posted on 04/03/2023 12:46:29 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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it is not a disease

Really?

Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Chlamydia aren't diseases?

Huh ...

9 posted on 04/03/2023 12:47:18 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: nickcarraway

There’s a whole lotta swiping, goin’ on.


10 posted on 04/03/2023 12:49:15 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: PGR88

It’s less scary if you call it an infection.


11 posted on 04/03/2023 12:52:20 PM PDT by bgill
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To: nickcarraway

It couldn’t happen to a more deserving city.


12 posted on 04/03/2023 12:53:12 PM PDT by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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To: PGR88

When did we switch from VD to STD? When did we switch from social disease to VD?


13 posted on 04/03/2023 12:54:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

God will not be mocked. We got the syphillis uptick in 2014 or 2015. So I cannot imagine how bad it is now.
This is a medieval disease caused by medieval behaviors.


14 posted on 04/03/2023 12:55:20 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: nickcarraway

A festering sore, by any other name, will hurt as much.


15 posted on 04/03/2023 12:59:12 PM PDT by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: JonPreston

They haven’t been counted yet. this was 2020-2021


16 posted on 04/03/2023 1:00:32 PM PDT by shotgun
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I think the switch was from Venereal Disease to Social Disease.

Because people became too stupid to know what “venereal” means.


17 posted on 04/03/2023 1:00:53 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: momincombatboots

...and it sure doesn’t help to have 50 million diseased people carrying it in wholesale, over our southern border.


18 posted on 04/03/2023 1:01:00 PM PDT by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: NorthMountain

you are born with a disease, heart disease, kidney disease, cancer... you get an infection... surprise, you have Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Chlamydia... a cold is not a disease, but a viral infection...


19 posted on 04/03/2023 1:10:08 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: teeman8r

I think I’m being bullshitted, here ...


20 posted on 04/03/2023 1:11:05 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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