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Sunday, October 23rd, 2016

STD rates hit record high in U.S. as screening clinics close

Author:     Lena H. Sun
Source:     The Washington Post
Publication Date:     October 20 at 12:35 PM
 Link: STD rates hit record high in U.S. as screening clinics close
Stephan:   Because the Theocratic Right has such a disturbed and dysfunctional view of human sexuality, there is constant pressure in the U.S. to discard facts and develop social policies grounded in early iron age views on gender and sex. And to severely limit sex education, or outright purvey disinformation about it. The result, quite predictably, is degraded healthcare and sick people. Here is the data. Yet another negative proof of the Theorem of Wellbeing.
Drug-resistant gonorrhea is on the increase. It causes severe reproductive complications and disproportionately affects sexual, racial and ethnic minorities. Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Drug-resistant gonorrhea is on the increase. It causes severe reproductive complications and disproportionately affects sexual, racial and ethnic minorities.
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Infections from three sexually transmitted diseases have hit another record high, federal health officials reported.

More than 1.5 million cases of chlamydia were reported last year, up 6 percent from the year before. About 400,000 cases of gonorrhea were reported, a nearly 13 percent increase from 2014. The biggest increase, 19 percent, occurred in syphilis cases, with nearly 24,000 reported, according to the annual report on STDs released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

All three diseases are curable with antibiotics, but gonorrhea is growing increasingly resistant to treatment with antibiotics.

CDC officials said STD rates are rising at a time when many of the country’s systems for preventing those infections have eroded. In recent years, more than half of […]

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