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STDs At All-Time High

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STDs At All-Time High, Chlamydia Sets Record

STDs At All-Time High, Chlamydia Sets Record

Although previous reports have shown that sexually transmitted diseases are on decline in the United States, the most recent of its kind shows the opposite. The annual report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention titled “Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance, 2007” reveals a high burden of STDs, especially among women and racial minorities.

Cases of chlamydia in 2007 set a record. There were 1.1 million cases, the most ever reported, meaning an increase from about 1 million in 2006. The rate among women was 3-fold that of men in 2007 (543.6 cases per 100,000 women compared to 190 cases per 100,000 men).

Chlamydia has no symptoms sometimes but can lead to infertility in women. Some women though may experience pain in their lower abdomen or notice a burning sensation or a pus-like discharge when they urinate. The increase might be a result of better screening.

“The issue with chlamydia is the more tests, the more you’ll find,” said Dr. Jonathan Zenilman, a professor of infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

According to the National Committee for Quality Assurance, a nonprofit that monitors health care, the percentage of young women being tested for the infection rose by double digits from 2003 to 2007.


Dr. Douglas said people need to be informed on these diseases in order to reverse the number of cases. “These diseases can be treated, and we need to have better awareness about how extensive these infections are and what the prevention opportunities are,” he said.
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Very interesting. Could it be the higher number because of more people getting tested or is it just the diseases are spreading more? Where I live in Omaha, they are reporting an STD epidemic among young people. Why such a sudden surge, is it more younger people are having unprotected sex and why would that be? Are they just naive about the diseases or is it uneducation? I know when I was younger I thought I was untouchable and didn't always practice safe sex. When I was 17, I got chlamydia and that changed my whole perspective and I never did have unprotected sex after that, unless I was in a formed commited relationship taking birth control. It's sad that it seems to take getting the disease for young people to be safe but with these increasing rates, how can we fix them?
 
new coup for you said:
They are always reporting and STD epidemic among young people.
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Maybe because it just keeps rising with no decline ever being reported. That's not good, considering all the funding we have for sex education. Oh wait, abstitence is the policy, not safe sex or education about it :doh
 
10 years ago, much fewer people got tested for STD's. Now, they have STD testing days set up in college dorms.

It's not really a surprise to me that they're discovering more infections nowadays.
 
new coup for you said:
They are always reporting and STD epidemic among young people.
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True ive been ****in much older women since i was 18 every now and again and they are easier than anyone so im sure its not just young people.
 
What a society that promotes sex has lots of STDS? Say it ain't so?
 
MrVicchio said:
What a society that promotes sex has lots of STDS? Say it ain't so?
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Im sure Holland promotes sex by Americans standards yet they dont get as many STDS.Maybe its a society that treats sex as something dirty that ends up with more STDS
 
When I was 17, I got chlamydia and that changed my whole perspective and I never did have unprotected sex after that, unless I was in a formed commited relationship taking birth control.
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Yeah, I had that **** too, twice.
At least it's easy to get rid of, unlike some.
 
MrVicchio said:
What a society that promotes sex has lots of STDS? Say it ain't so?
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I'd be interested to know the STD rates in Sweden... you know, the country with the highest chance to have a one night stand, receive oral, and participate in an orgy.

:2wave:

Just sayin' maybe it boils down to education or lack thereof
 
mikhail said:
Im sure Holland promotes sex by Americans standards yet they dont get as many STDS.Maybe its a society that treats sex as something dirty that ends up with more STDS
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HIV RATE IN NETHERLANDS UP 22 PERCENT. In conjunction with rising STD rates across Europe, this week the Netherlands health agency RIVM reported the number of Dutch citizens diagnosed with HIV grew 22% last year over 2004.

In addition, chlamydia rates were up 15 percent.

Government health organizations in the country have called the figures “alarming.”
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Physicians For Life - Abstinence, Abortion, Birth Control - HIV Rate in Netherlands Up 22 Percent (4/06)
 
new coup for you said:
or maybe it just makes rating-grabbing sensationalist news
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Each time or place std rates increase, it is sensational enough to be 'newsworthy'. Each place it goes down slightly, or stays the same it is not.

this means that u hear about it going up often 9in differing contexts0, but where it goes down, u will likely hear nothing.

The same principle applies to a great many things in the new media. On all sides of the politicalspectrum and upon all nature of issues, sensationalism sells, and creates a warped perspective in the process.

p.s. i am not saying std rates are not on the increase altho I suspect that this is not a very simple process (compared to when, diagnosis rates, which wtd's, among what demographics etc). Just alluding to a process that undoubtably plays a roll in everyone of our eprspectives on this issue and many others.
 
Perhaps because kids now seem to be sleeping with anything and everything?

Quite a connection i made there.

When kids have 30+ partners before they are 21 ... odds are they will get more diseases.
 
bilbus said:
Perhaps because kids now seem to be sleeping with anything and everything?

Quite a connection i made there.

When kids have 30+ partners before they are 21 ... odds are they will get more diseases.
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Jealous much!?!
 
exponential growth in Bugchasers :o
he who has the most STDs wins :doh
 
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bilbus said:
Perhaps because kids now seem to be sleeping with anything and everything?

Quite a connection i made there.

When kids have 30+ partners before they are 21 ... odds are they will get more diseases.
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so what? and do you support the use of contraception?
 
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